valgrind errors in X server

Peter Harris pharris at opentext.com
Tue Oct 11 11:08:49 PDT 2011


On 2011-10-11 05:52, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> While valgrinding the X server to track a double free in one of my
> patches I found the errors below.

> ==3355== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
> ==3355==    at 0x6DCE290: inflateReset2 (in /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3.4)
> ==3355==    by 0x6DCE37F: inflateInit2_ (in /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3.4)
> ==3355==    by 0x5B65E95: BufFilePushZIP (in /usr/lib/libXfont.so.1.4.1)

This is a known "poor interaction" between zlib and valgrind:
http://zlib.net/zlib_faq.html#faq36

This particular report is safe to ignore.

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