Re: [Valgrind-developers] trying to use valgrind with openafs...

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

Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
>> I have a feeling that some of the cases are due to propagation
>> (copying/passing undefined vals up and down through various subroutine
>> calls), but there are a ton of places that it looks like the code
>> assumes things start as zero.
>
>Assuming malloc'd memory is zeroed is an easy mistake to make, since many
>malloc() implementations do zero even though this isn't required. (Not
>sure about glibc, though.)

Could the confusion be thanks to the fact that globals/statics are set to 0;
sometime in the history of the development, these variables moved into the
fuction? ... Just a thought.

Cheerio,
M

p.s. Julian, can we please set the Reply-To to the list email id by default? If
one is not careful, the possibility of spamming you or Nicholas is non
trivial....

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