[Valgrind-users] Valgrind ignores program if linked with -static flag

[Todd B. <to...@ns...>]

Hi Everyone,

I'm new to Valgrind, so I appologize if this is already known.  I am 
compiling
some code which links in some third party libraries (TIFF, GeoTIFF, 
Proj4).  I
wanted to link in the static (.a) libraries instead of the shared so I 
linked the code
using the -static flag.  When linked this way, Valgrind seems to ignore 
the program
producing no valgrind output whatsoever.  I recompiled the code removing 
the
-static flag and valgrind works fine. 

In this process, I found that I had already removed the shared (.so) 
libraries anyway,
so the static flag was unnecessary.  So effectively, the same libraries 
are linked in
to the code, but Valgrind does not work if -static is specified on the 
link line.

By the way, I have been a longtime user of Purify and I must say that I 
am very
impressed with Valgrind.  Valgrind functions much like the Purify I used 
to use
on SGI.  I have Purify Plus on Linux, and it is not the same as the IRIX 
(SGI)
version.  It requires recompilation and source code modification and 
just plain
doesn't work as well as the old IRIX version.  We are mothballing our 
old SGI's
and I was worried about what I would do about Purify.  Valgrind has answered
that question for me.  I am not going to renew my maintanence for Purify 
and
am switching to Valgrind.

Sincerely,

Todd

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Todd Berendes
Research Scientist
National Space Science & Technology Center
University of Alabama in Huntsville
320 Sparkman Drive
Huntsville, AL  35805
(256) 961-7943
fax:(256) 961-7755
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