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Re: RFC: --enable-checking=valgrind.

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:11:06PM -0500, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> 
> Hum, as I said I was just soliciting feedback about whether this
> feature would be useful at all, and would then rather get the
> patch into shape to be applied so people can do this by
> themselves.  But since you think it's useful and Zack dives into
> reviewing the details, I guess it is, and it's time to shape up
> the damn patch. :-)

I definitely think it's useful -- especially if you add annotation
logic to ggc-page.c so it knows object boundaries.  (I just found a
(harmless) access-past-end-of-object bug by running cc1plus under
valgrind -- with ggc-simple.c; when ggc-page.c's in use it has no
clue.)

zw
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