Re: [Valgrind-users] valgring whith JudyArray

[Crispin F. <val...@fl...>]

On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 11:32, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
> 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.

It would certainly help running some gnome programs, I know quite a few
people who thought that valgrind couldn't run their programs (certainly
the alignment is needed for galeon and epiphany).

Crispin