Re: [Valgrind-users] Making valgrind output diff-friendly

[David D. <dav...@gm...>]

I had a similar problem, and ended up filtering all the addresses and
identifiers out, so I could to a diff.

Since sometimes address are not as important as names, I wonder what kinds
of indirection could be done to "hide" the addresses and stuff..


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Nick Savoiu <sa...@ya...> wrote:

>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Valgrind's typical output
>
>
> ==19182== Invalid write of size 4
>
> ==19182==    at 0x804838F: f (example.c:6)
>
> ==19182==    by 0x80483AB: main (example.c:11)
>
> ==19182==  Address 0x1BA45050 is 0 bytes after a block of size 40 alloc'd
>
> ==19182==    at 0x1B8FF5CD: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:130)
>
> ==19182==    by 0x8048385: f (example.c:5)
>
> ==19182==    by 0x80483AB: main (example.c:11)
>
> is not very diff-friendly. Is there a way to suppress process id and
> address printing? Perhaps something like
>
> ==?????== Invalid write of size 4
> ==?????==    at 0x???????: f (example.c:6)
> ==?????==    by 0x???????: main (example.c:11)
> ==?????==  Address 0x??????? is 0 bytes after a block of size 40 alloc'd
> ==?????==    at 0x???????: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:130)
> ==?????==    by 0x???????: f (example.c:5)
> ==?????==    by 0x???????: main (example.c:11)
>
>
> or
> ==== Invalid write of size 4
> ====    at : f (example.c:6)
> ====    by : main (example.c:11)
> ====  Address  is 0 bytes after a block of size 40 alloc'd
> ====    at : malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:130)
> ====    by : f (example.c:5)
> ====    by : main (example.c:11)
>
>
> Or is there a better way?
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
>
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