Re: [Valgrind-users] Valgrind malloc problem

[Patrick A. <pat...@no...>]

It is a 64 bit machine, and I reinstalled valgrind using
--enable-only64bit, and it did use the -m64 when compiling.

Unfortunately I get the same malloc failure as before.

Patrick

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 03:03:37PM -0600, tom fogal wrote:
> Pat...@no... writes:
> >   I am using valgrind 3.4.1 to try to find a memory leak. My
> > program has an initial routine which allocates a lot of memory -
> > around 1 GB. When I run the program by itself it runs fine, however
> > when I run it under valgrind, one of the many malloc calls in
> > the initial routine fails.
> > 
> > Does anyone know why this would happen? There is plenty of memory
> > on the machine (64 GB).
> 
> Are you running in 32bit mode?  Make sure you're passing -m64 when
> compiling with gcc.
> 
> -tom
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