Re: [Valgrind-developers] [PATCH] Add support for GLib memory management functions

[Julian S. <js...@ac...>]

On Wednesday 09 July 2008 09:47, Tom Hughes wrote:
> In message <200...@gm...>
>
>         Bart Van Assche <bar...@gm...> wrote:
> > The GLib library is a general-purpose utility library which provides a.o.
> > memory management functions. This library is used by almost all GNOME and
> > KDE applications. Intercepting the GLib memory allocation functions is
> > necessary for correct operation of the memcheck, massif, helgrind, drd
> > and exp-omega Valgrind tools. The patch below makes Valgrind recognize
> > the GLib memory management functions. Please review the patch below.
>
> Do the GLib allocation routines not wind up calling the C library ones
> and hence get caught that way?

Indeed; we've been shipping memcheck for N years now (5+ ?) and I don't
recall anybody telling us we were not intercepting memory allocation/
free functions in glib.  I would think memcheck would be unusable on 
KDE and Gnome applications due to high noise level if that were really
the case.  Are you sure?

J