Re: [Valgrind-developers] Same maximum for backtrace size and suppression entries size ? bug 199468

[Mark W. <mj...@re...>]

Hi Philippe,

On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 13:14 +0200, Philippe Waroquiers wrote:
> For sure, removing limitation 1 is good : users are less limited,
> and unless someone really wants a suppression of more than 25 entries,
> this does not change the behaviour.
> 
> Removing limitation 2 means that users using --num-callers > 25
> and --gen-suppressions=yes will now generate bigger suppression
> entries.
> 
> IMO, that is a consistent/understandable behaviour , but as this is a
> (small) behaviour difference with 3.11, better ask for feedback before
> commit :).
> 
> So, any objection/feedback ?

I cannot imagine (maybe I am not trying too hard?) that anybody would
rely on --gen-suppressions=yes being limited to just 25 entries by
default. So such a change seems fine to me.

Thanks,

Mark