Re: [Valgrind-users] valgring whith JudyArray

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

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Dennis Lubert wrote:

> This sounds like programming at microsoft. I would not try to spent time on
> fixing tools/programs so that they work with invalid behaviour, guessing
> what the user wants. Programs should be able to handle 4 bytes alignment.
> If not, then they are not very well implemented. Anyone who needs this
> should use valgrinds suppression feature, I think this is what it was
> designed for : Not showing errors to users, which are well known.

Looks like this is a divisive issue.  It's unfortunate that the errors
reported by Memcheck when 8-byte alignment is assumed don't make it at all
obvious what the problem is.  Which is the lesser evil -- not reporting
bugs that occur because of alignment assumptions, or people not using
Valgrind at all because they can't understand why it's complaining?  Maybe
a FAQ entry about this is a good compromise.

N