Re: [Valgrind-users] Suppression bug with Memcheck:Value16

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

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Leonard mckinley wrote:

> Figuring I had the supression rule wrong, I reran with
> --gen-suppressions=yes.  However, when valgrind hit this event in
> the code, it crashed and said:
>
> ==2336== Thread 2:
> ==2336== Use of uninitialised value of size 16
> ==2336==    at 0x40D64260: __nvsym04804 (in
> /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.3123)
> ==2336==
> ==2336== ---- Print suppression ? --- [Return/N/n/Y/y/C/c] ----
> Memcheck: the `impossible' happened:
>    unexpected size for Value
> Basic block ctr is approximately 104700000

It's a bug/oversight -- Valgrind doesn't support suppressions for 16 byte
value errors.  I will investigate, hopefully get back to you soon.

N