Re: [Valgrind-users] Valgrind & Matlab

[Nicholas N. <nj...@ca...>]

On Tue, 20 May 2003, Sami Romdhani wrote:

> Table 1. block_array is currupt
> mwmem.c:1010: Assert : Forced Assertion "Unaligned pointer found in
> cache"
> Aborted
>
> I tried to look in the source code of valgrind for this mwmem.c file,
> but couldn't find it. I'm then assuming that this files comes from the
> matlab libraries (difficult to be sure as nm does not work on the matlab
> .so libs)

Try running Valgrind with the --alignment=8 option... many implementations
of malloc() give back 8-byte aligned pointers, Valgrind by default
(legitimately)  gives back 4-byte aligned pointers, and this breaks some
programs.

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