Re: [Valgrind-users] Exit codes for Valgrind

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

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Paul L Daniels wrote:

> Is there a way to get valgrind to exit a non-zero return code if it
> finds errors in the grind process?
>
> So far I've noticed that it essentially always returns '0' if valgrind
> itself didn't fail.

Well, it does (or should) return the same value that the non-valground
process does.

> I want to do this so that I can run valgrind in a shell script which I
> currently use to validate my program (using ~5000
> data set tests ) - and have the shell script halt if valgrind finds a
> problem while running one of the tests.

If the valground process returned non-zero, how could you tell if it was
because Valgrind found errors, or because the process returned non-zero?

An alternative solution is to run valgrind with -q, send the output to a
file (using a command line like "valgrind --logfile=tmp myprog") and then
check the file for zero size.

N