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From: Tom H. <to...@co...> - 2005-08-10 06:23:55
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In message <200...@ac...>
Julian Seward <js...@ac...> wrote:
> The circularity problem is, however, much worse for the X
> client libraries. Valgrind's default .supp files contain literally
> dozens of suppressions for errors reported in the X libraries.
> I'm not saying Xlib et al are particularly buggy. But it would be
> nice if we didn't have to suppress this much. I'd be happy to
> offer guidance, assistance, etc, to any X.org developers who
> wanted to look Valgrinding X.org; then at least we would know
> whether these are real bugs or false errors.
The main problem with the X libraries is that they send structure
across the network between client and server without initialising
any padding bytes isn't it?
Certainly uninitialised bytes in network writes is the common
complaint from the X libraries.
Tom
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