Re: Suggestion for the documentation of --error-exitcode

John Reiser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.debugging.valgrind
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/12/22 10:04, David Anderson wrote:
> Thhe html documentation
> http://www.valgrind.org/docs/manual/index.html
> explains what --error-exitcode=9
> does in case valgrind notes an error.

> [[snip]]

> It says nothing explicitly about what exit code is returned
> if valgrind does not find an error. AFAICT.
> 
> In my tests, it appears that when valgrind
> finds no problem valgrind returns the exit code
> of the application under test if --error-exitcode is set non-zero.
> I suggest that the web page should say that clearly.

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