Re: [Valgrind-users] Valgrind does not display any messages

[Olly B. <ol...@su...>]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:04:15AM -0500, Sarcar, Shourya C (MED) wrote:
> But when I run this with a particular program (I call it 've'), the
> program executes but Valgrind prints out no messages at all.
> The only outputs are the printfs from the executable (ve).

This is FAQ #5.

It probably means 've' is statically linked.  Try running ldd on ve:

ldd ve

This will say "not a dynamic executable" if ve is statically linked.  In
order to hook into execution, valgrind uses LD_PRELOAD tricks which only
work for dynamically linked executables.

Which reminds me that I wrote a quick patch to add a test for this case
(attached).  Not sure if it's worth the overhead or not, but I might as
well post it rather than leaving it sitting on my harddisk...

Cheers,
    Olly