Re: [Valgrind-users] --gen-suppressions prompting

[Madhu M. K. <mm...@ya...>]

Hi,

Leonard mckinley wrote:
>What do you think of a --gen-suppressions={yes|no|ask} option.  "yes"
>would generate suppressions without a prompt for every flagged issue,
>and "ask" would do what yes does now.  I just want it to dump
>everything in a file and when it prompts me I have to sit there and
>bang "y" on the keyboard.

Attached is a patch that does precisely that. It accumulates suppressions
and dumps them into a file, sorted by frequency at which they were hit
during the execution.

	I've found this to be fairly useful by running through my programs
with the simplest startup/shutdown execution path. This captures all the
background noise. With the generated suppression file, I then try the
various options in the code to discover problems that I'm in a position to
fix. In addition, reading the low frequency count errors is a good idea :)

	Could you apply this patch and let me know how it goes?

Cheerio,
M

 Madhu M Kurup /* Nemo Me Impune Lacessit */ mmk at yahoo-inc dt com