Re: [Valgrind-developers] valgrind: r6640 - trunk/memcheck

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

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Julian Seward wrote:

>> So you've essentially added eager definedness checking for environment
>> variables -- is that right?
>
> Oh, yes, you're right.  Hang on.  That's not good.
> [...]
> Should be be in the business of checking arguments to arbitrary libc
> functions?  I had not realised this before, but the function wrapping
> stuff makes it possible to do that if we want.

Dunno, it's a bit of a slippery slope.  It's a shame the origin-tracking 
doesn't work very well.

Nick