Re: valgrind warnings [Re: Emacs bzr memory footprint]

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> On 11/05/11 15:08, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>> Do you think that's a problem?
>
> It looks suspicious, yes.
>
> I don't have that problem with bzr 106302
> (Fedora 15 x86-64, Emacs compiled with GCC 4.6.2).
> I do recall seeing it in earlier bzrs on the trunk, though.

I use the same platform, but the compiler is
gcc (GCC) 4.6.1 20110908 (Red Hat 4.6.1-9)
I compile with -g -O0.


> What happens when you run:
>
> valgrind --db-attach=yes --suppressions=valgrind.supp ./temacs
>
> Can you use GDB to navigate to the offending uninitialized value
> and see why the garbage collector is trying to look
> at that stack location?

Tried that, but I didn't find anything that made sense...