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

[Matze B. <ma...@br...>]

On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Pascal Giard wrote:

> 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 ?
Well I found lots of unreleased stuff in the tuxkart code and I'm cleaning 
this up at the moment, but might need 1 or 2 days more.

Greetings,
	Matze