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Re: command and doco for valgrind


From: Nick Roberts
Subject: Re: command and doco for valgrind
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:47:04 +0000

 > > BTW I think valgrind could be a useful tool to debug some of Emacs crashes
 > > (less frequent now) on x86 architectures. However, for some reason, it 
 > > reports
 > > a memory full message at start up, at the moment:
 > > 
 > > ==2466== Invalid free() / delete / delete[]
 > > ==2466==    at 0x400263A8: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:231)
 > > ==2466==    by 0x812A135: memory_full (alloc.c:478)
 > > ==2466==    by 0x812A3E8: lisp_malloc (alloc.c:623)
 > > ==2466==    by 0x812BA07: allocate_vectorlike (alloc.c:2505)
 > > ==2466==    Address 0x83CCE60 is not stack'd, malloc'd or free'd
 > > emacs: Memory exhausted--use M-x save-some-buffers then exit and restart 
 > > Emacs
 > 
 > FWIW, this problem is documented in the valgrind's docs.

How about including this in Emacs PROBLEMS file also?

Nick




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