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

[Philippe W. <phi...@sk...>]

On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 21:24 +0100, Paul Floyd wrote:

> Even this is not very diff-friendly (changing line numbers will cause diffs).
> 
> I recommend enabling suppression generation (--gen-suppressions=yes). Then you can filter anything that isn't 
> between braces. Or even simply use suppression file(s), in which case if there is a new or changed callstack 
> you will get new errors.

+1 for suppression files.
Moreover, you can put comments in suppression files, e.g. explaining
why the error reported by valgrind is to be ignored :
E.g. reference a known bug, or explain why it is a false positive,
or ...

A diff file does not contain explanations.

Philippe