Re: [Valgrind-users] Looking for a usage trick

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

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Alex Ivershen wrote:

> I have an application that spawns quite a few children processes.

By default, Valgrind does not trace child processes.  This means that if
you Valgrind a script, Valgrind will check the script interpreter, eg.
Perl or Bash or whatever, but not any child processes exec'd by the
script.

But if you specify --trace-children=yes, it does trace children.  But if
you must Valgrind only one of the children, this won't be precise enough.

> if ( valgrind switch is set )

#include memcheck.h, and use the RUNNING_ON_VALGRIND macro to do this
check.

HTH

N