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From: Florian K. <br...@ac...> - 2011-09-13 13:14:24
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On 09/11/2011 11:11 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Florian Krohm <br...@ac...> wrote:
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>> Case in point is a valgrind report like this:
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>> ERROR SUMMARY: 9 errors from 3 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
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>> with 3 errors actually shown.
.. snip ..
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> My preference is not to change Valgrind's output but instead to
> document clearly what the meaning is of the reported numbers.
To a user a report like the above looks wrong by any interpretation of
"suppressed". It violates the principle of least astonishment and should
be fixed. IMHO users don't gain a lot from knowing whether or not
valgrind found duplicate errors.
Florian
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