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

[Josef W. <Jos...@gm...>]

On Friday 30 March 2007, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
> 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.

What are the big problems there?

Josef