Re: [Valgrind-users] identifying error numbers for --vgdb-error

[Rob <fao...@ya...>]

> Hmm, this doesn't sound like it's going to be simple to fix in
> a clean way.
>
> For the moment, can we do the incremental fix of taking Philippe's
> patch (with the off-by-one fixed) ?  That's a very simple patch
> and uncontroversial patch.  (Maybe should also backport it for
> 3.7.1 ?)

Sounds good to me.  This is still a big improvement.

> At work, a user is doing a nasty trick to survive in such a case: he
> writes a suppression file for all errors preceeding the one he is
> interested in. Not very easy but can be made better
> by having a new command line option:
>     --vgdb-error-list=<filename>   invoke gdbserver for each error described in filename
>
> The big advantage of this schema is that it is not sensitive
> to scheduling/numbering/...
>
> With this, gdbserver would be invoked either when the error nr is>= --vgdb-error
> or when it matches an error described in --vgdb-error-list.
> The --vgdb-error-list=<filename>  will use the same format as a suppression file.
>

Even better!  I think this is a good combination of options and should 
suit most eventualities.

thanks,
Rob