[PATCH] test-skeleton.c: Do not enable M_PERTURB

Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh@sourceware.org
Thu Jun 23 14:50:00 GMT 2016


On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 04:40:42PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Over all, this decreases the realism of the tests because
> it ensures that freshly allocated memory has a well-defined
> bit pattern.  It also causes malloc to take internal paths
> different from regular application usage, and therefore
> reduces malloc test coverage.

The well-defined bit pattern is more likely to catch any bad tests
though, which might make it valuable.  However, I agree that it makes
sense to remove it for malloc tests.

Siddhesh



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