Re: [Valgrind-users] suppress warning repetition

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

On Fri, 2015-01-02 at 00:44 +0000, "João M. S. Silva" wrote:
> On 01/02/2015 12:05 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:
> > No. Stack overruns are not detected because there is no guard space
> > between stack variables like there is between heap variables.
> 
> OK, I didn't know that. Now I'm a bit worried :P I thought my code was 
> 99% clean :)
> 
> Is there a way to check for stack memory errors? If it was not for the 
> %s in the command string it could be caught with cppcheck, but with the 
> %s only a runtime check would do, I guess.
You can try with
   valgrind --tool=exp-sgcheck
(sg = stack and global).
This is an experimental tool, so not as polished as the others
(e.g. might have a lot of false positive).
But it detects (some of) the problems with stack and global variables.
No idea if it works on ARM, however.

Philippe