Re: [Valgrind-users] Puzzling warning messages from memcheck

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

On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Dallman, John wrote:
> > They indicate that valgrind's memory manager was asked to
> > handle a block (actually a single contiguous address
> > interval, which could be a block or a non-block) of more
> > than 100,000,000 bytes ... on x86_64 with 64-bit addresses
> > and much more latitude for placement of PT_LOAD, this

Harmless .. ignore it.  Either one of your .so's has a 
data, text or bss section of size > 100MB, or (more likely)
the app did a malloc/calloc/new etc of size > 100MB.  If you
really want to see, try --trace-malloc=yes.  It doesn't
indicate any defect in your code.

It was probably of some use for the valgrind developers years
ago.

J