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Re: Use of mcheck during GDB development

On 11/15/2016 09:58 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2016-11-15 15:50, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> Yeah, or address sanitizer, which would be closer to being
>> something you could always have on.  Valgrind is too heavyweight
>> for everyday use.  I believe we're not asan clean yet, unfortunately,
>> but we're slowly getting there.
> 
> I occasionally build GDB with ASAN when chasing specific bugs, and it's
> been clean for my practical purposes.  Except for many warnings in
> libpython at startup, I don't know whether they're real or false positives.

I meant when running the GDB testsuite against it.  Do you know whether asan
vs non-asan is regression free for you?  I haven't tried in a while.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves
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