Re: [Valgrind-users] One more xfree86 suppression

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

Dan Kegel <da...@ke...> said on September 13,2003:

> Saw this one while running OpenOffice, figured it might
> be the old X bug Keith mentioned in the linked paper.
> Not sure, but it seems like a good guess.
> 
> {
>     "Xlib does not zero out unused bytes in the protocol stream"; see
>     http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/usenix2003/html/net.html
>     Memcheck:Param
>     writev(vector[...])
>     fun:vgAllRoadsLeadToRome_writev

This hits you quite a bit when working with GNOME code too, my GNOME
suppression list had this AFAIK.

Cheerio,
M

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