Re: [Valgrind-users] Strange (at least to me) valgrind messages

[Tom H. <to...@co...>]

On 21/09/15 23:04, Tyson Whitehead wrote:

> ==32704== Unaddressable byte(s) found during client check request
> ...
> ==32704==  Address 0x243e6040 is 16,384 bytes inside a block of size 1,048,576 alloc'd
> ...
>
> and
>
> ==32704== Invalid read of size 8
> ...
> ==32704==  Address 0x22fe2040 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 1,048,576 alloc'd
> ...
>
> and
>
> ==32704== Invalid write of size 8
> ...
> ==32704==  Address 0x22fe2048 is 8 bytes inside a block of size 1,048,576 alloc'd
> ...
>
> and on and on and on ...
>
> Are these valid errors?  Everything I found online seemed to indicate that error addresses should not fall entirely inside allocated blocks.

Why should they not be valid? It probably just means somebody has used a 
client request to mark that address as invalid.

Tom

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