Re: [Openvpn-devel] --with-mem-check, what to do with it?

[Steffan K. <ste...@fo...>]

Hi,

On 29-12-17 11:11, Илья Шипицин wrote:
> thank for the patch.
> 
> not directly related to the patch itself, but openvpn is shipped with
> several memory debugging options
> 
> --with-mem-check=TYPE   build with debug memory checking
> 
> 
> should we get rid of them (in favour of sanitizers) ? or, maybe add to
> tests instead ?

I've tried to use those in the past, but found them hard to use.  I
think they're a remnant of the past.  I would personally prefer to get
rid of them and use the (nowadays much better) fully external memory
checking tools instead (sanitizers, valgrind, etc).

-Steffan