Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/9] valgrind/i386/s390x: memcheck false positives

[Christian Borntraeger]

Am 30.10.2014 10:58, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> On 30 October 2014 09:50, Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Yes, I will try to get some of this fixed in valgrind as well. This will
>> take a little longer though because the code changes are bigger than just
>> 1 line of code. Given that valgrind has around 1 release/year, this patch
>> set is certainly a nice band-aid that is useful for todays development.
> 
> I guess these patches also mean we're not going to get valgrind warnings
> if we forget to initialize a necessary field in the struct.

Yes, thats correct. The alternative would be to not use an designated 
initializer and instead memset reserved and pad field.

> but I suppose we can live with that.
> 
> -- PMM
>