Re: [TuxKart-devel] Valgrind: hunting possible leaks

[Pascal G. <pa...@gu...>]

On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 14:45:17 +0200 (CEST), Matze Braun wrote
> valgrind has problems with some hacks the nvidia and ati opengl 
> drivers are doing. An "export __GL_FORCE_GENERIC_CPU=1" helps for 
> nvidia cards, for ati you can only try to link tuxkart with mesa 
> instead of ati opengl.

I've an nVidia, i've just tried __GL_FORCE_GENERIC_CPU=1, but i don't see any
difference. They're still alot of false positives in
/usr/lib/tls/libGL.so.1.0.5336.


> > I'll try kcachegrind to see if i can get to understand more.
> cachegrind is for testing the performance of an App when you 
> consider cpu caches so that you can optimize your code to better fit 
> inside the data and command-caches of the cpu. That's only usefull 
> if you need to tweak the last 5% performance of your app, we're not 
> at that point in tuxkart yet.

thanks for the information.

btw, do you see anything usefull in the log i attached to my other email ?

-Pascal
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