Re: [Valgrind-users] valgring whith JudyArray

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

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Salim SAYOURI wrote:

> It seems that the pointers used in Judy array are aligned on 8 bytes!  And
> launching valgrind with the option --alignment=8 solves the problem.

This is a fairly common problem... perhaps we should just change
Valgrind's allocator to align heap blocks on 8-byte boundaries?  I know
that programs should, strictly speaking, be able to handle 4-byte
alignments.  But it does cause difficult-to-understand problems with
Memcheck.  Not sure.

N