RE: [Valgrind-users] Running Valgrind on large programs

[Tom H. <to...@co...>]

In message <942...@ha...>
          "Yeshurun, Meir" <mei...@in...> wrote:

> I read the message from Yuri in the archive about changing
> KICKSTART_BASE.

Could you point me at it, because the bit you quoted didn't make
much sense on it's own.

> But the guy who suggested the hack in coregrind/vg_main.c said that in
> version 2.4 this variable is effectively ignored.

Because 2.4 defaults to PIE mode! In PIE mode KICKSTART_BASE is
ignored. In non-PIE mode it controls where the split is between
the client address space and the valgrind address space.

> Do you know anything about this problem? Was it fixed in 3.0?

I think you'd be better off trying to work out why you are having
a problem so we can come up with a proper fix.

What is the actual problem that made you try PIE mode and why did
you think that PIE mode would help?

What is your actual problem with PIE mode? What happens when you
try and use a PIE build of valgrind?

Tom

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