Re: [Valgrind-users] How to report WHICH buffer has uninitialized data

[Nicholas N. <nj...@cs...>]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Scott Long wrote:

>> It sounds like it needs potentially unbounded storage associated with
>> each register in order to work.  Supposing a register r contains the
>> sum of values from a large range of memory locations, some of which
>> are defined and some are undefined.  How do you choose which of the
>> undefined locations to tag the register with?
>
> As I said in my original post, I don't think this is a problem. Pick one 
> arbitrarily (to make it simple, just use the most recent). The developer will 
> fix that error. Memcheck is run again, and now the next error is reported. In 
> nearly all realistic cases, only a few uninitialized values will be involved.

It sounds to me like a good compromise.  Patches are welcome!

N