Re: [Valgrind-users] "timer_create(evp) points to uninitialised byte(s)"

[John R. <jreiser@BitWagon.com>]

Bart Van Assche wrote:
> I have filed a glibc bug report for a similar issue with getifaddr() -- I'm
> curious to see how the glibc maintainers will respond to this (
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3793).

The patches linked from  http://bitwagon.com/glibc-audit/glibc-audit.html
handle this case and 73 others where glibc-2.4-4 uses what it considers
to be "don't care" uninitialized storage.  These cases were found by using
another tool, but apply to memcheck.  getifaddrs() was patched 2003-04-16,
more than three years ago in a prior version of glibc.

If your own code is good enough so that glibc is the leading suspect
for the remaining complaints from memcheck, then using glibc-audit
might enable you to move sooner to more productive work.

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