Re: [PATCH] Shut up valgrind

On 23/01/2014 14:02, Charles Gordon wrote:
> Hi Francois,
> 
> I just committed a large patch to fix this issue among other malloc related inconsistencies.
> valgrind was right, it was a bug!
> qe_mallocz would have cleared the allocated structure, but you used malloc in haiku.cpp to allocate it :(
> valgrind rules!

Actually I ran it on GNU/Linux since valgrind isn't available yet on
Haiku... (I just started the port).
The X11 code did use qe_mallocz, but I didn't check the tty code though.

> I added macros to prevent spurious uses of malloc/free.
> Can you verify the I did not break the compilation?

Works on Debian here.

On Haiku I had to change some atomic calls since the API has been
modified recently, but the rest seems ok.

François.