Re: [Valgrind-users] Using valgrind with interactive console apps

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

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 Sun...@ut... wrote:

> Is there a way to have Valgrind allow for user interactivity? Basically I
> have a threaded app, with the main function in a loop, looking for gets().
> A menu is provided to the user if any key is entered, and further input is
> received from this point onwards (basically in the form of a question). The
> other threads use the values from the interactive menu/user input for
> processing.
>
> I could not get Valgrind to allow for the user input portion - rather the
> process starts, and all user input causes the app to not proceed.

Valgrind should cope fine in this situation.  It might be a bug that's
causing the problem, but you'll have to give us more information to be
able to tell.  If you can strip your program down to a small example that
exhibits the problem, even better.

N