Re: Valgrind & Python : tried with Python suppression?

Reuben Thomas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.fonts.fontforge.devel
Message-ID <CAOnWdogzwspAtLs-OMCYpow_T3eTWpDJ-awFCjK7_0awZBSaVQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 30 July 2014 16:16, Frank Trampe <[email protected]> wrote:

> I haven't done this. It seems like a lot of trouble, and I've addressed
> all of the visible bad accesses for now. Leaks remain of course. In place
> of suppressing spurious Valgrind output, I've been using a script to filter
> it.
>
> If you do this and see anything interesting, though, do share. I would
> like to do this for Pango at some point as well.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Thomas Shinnick <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone tried the various instructions to eliminate the confusing
>> valgrind output due to Python, by building Python from source to use malloc
>> and then using the Valgrind suppression information supplied in the Python
>> source release?
>>
>> The idea is to build a side copy of Python set up to *not* confuse
>> Valgrind by not using its own memory allocator, and then build FontForge
>> from that, and _then_ get clean output from Valgrind by specifying
>> additional silencing suppression info.
>>
>> ?
>>
>
What would be great is to have a script that builds a special Python for
use with FontForge and configures the FontForge build appropriately; that
would be better than having to use a custom script for filtering Valgrind's
output.

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