Re: bash failed to start with valgrind

Chet Ramey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs
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On 2/4/26 10:35 AM, Masanari Iida wrote:
> Test with latest bash (commit 637f5c8696a6adc9b4519f1), x86_64,
> I try to execute bash with valgrind,  it failed.

You have to build a version of bash that can be run under valgrind using
`make valgrind'. Bash's use of its own malloc wrappers when building with
its internal malloc implementation thoroughly confuses valgrind.

There's a pretty complete explanation here:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-04/msg00053.html

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