Re: [Valgrind-users] New Valgrind User

[David E. <da...@2g...>]

On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 19:51, Patrick McFarland wrote:
> Hi, Ive just started using valgrind, and Im getting odd errors reported by
> valgrind:
>
> "Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)" from code that
> uses a if/else checking if foo == NULL or not

Then "foo" hasn't been initialized where it came from. Check the
backtrace.

> "Invalid write of size 1" when freeing. 

Maybe freeing the same memory twice?

> "Use of uninitialised value of size x" when using GLfloat foo = bar; (or any
> typedefed type for that matter)

Probably "bar" hasn't been initialized where it came from. Check the
backtrace.

> How do I fix these, or do I just ignore them?

At least don't ignore them if it's your own code :-)

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