[vtk-developers] Addition flag for valgrind

[Bill Lorensen]

These kids are getting quick...

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:25 AM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com>wrote:

> Kyle beat you to the suggestion. I added it to karego-at this morning and
> we should see it in tonight's dashboard.
>
>
> David E DeMarle
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> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Foks,
>>
>> I suggest we add the flag:
>> --track-origins=yes
>> to valgrind.
>> "Controls whether Memcheck tracks the origin of uninitialised values. By
>> default, it does not, which means that although it can tell you that an
>> uninitialised value is being used in a dangerous way, it cannot tell you
>> where the uninitialised value came from. This often makes it difficult to
>> track down the root problem. "
>> http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/mc-manual.html
>>
>> For example, it helped me find this error:
>> http://review.source.kitware.com/#/t/2301/
>>
>> which would have been hard to find without it.
>>
>> Bill
>>
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