Re: How important is mcheck?

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:50:20 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Could you move mcheck in-tree?

IMO mcheck has been obsoleted by asan (=gcc -fsanitize=address).

I just do not run GDB regularly under asan yet as in that case one can no
longer use 'ulimit -v 1000000' to catch GDB memory runaways.
	ERROR: AddressSanitizer failed to allocate 0x400000000 (17179869184) bytes at address 0x00067fff8000 (12)
	ReserveShadowMemoryRange failed while trying to map 0x400000000 bytes. Perhaps you're using ulimit -v

Unfortunately 'ulimit -m' (=RSS) has no effect so one has to give up on the
memory limit for GDB.  But it should be worth the asan improved checks.


Jan