Re: [Valgrind-developers] Mempool patch

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

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Robert Walsh wrote:

> I'd like to commit the mempool patch, unless anyone has any strenuous
> objections.  I'll run a final set of tests and check it in over the
> weekend.  It works fine for me and provides useful functionality.  It
> won't effect you unless you decide to use it.
>
> It's at the usual place: http://www.durables.org/software/valgrind
>
> I haven't undated it in a while, but I'll do that tonight when I get
> home from work.

What were the problems that prevented you from committing it before -- was
there something to do with leak detection?

Also, it looks like Addrcheck and Memcheck handle pools, but Massif and
Helgrind don't.  The amount of code that must be written for any tool to
do malloc interception is already unfortunately high (I've tried several
times to reduce it, but have never got anywhere) and it looks like
supporting mempools requires a decent amount of pretty boilerplate-ish
code to be added (viz that in mac_malloc_wrappers.c)... hmm.

N