valgrind errors in X server

Michal Suchanek hramrach at centrum.cz
Tue Oct 11 13:05:22 PDT 2011


On 11 October 2011 20:08, Peter Harris <pharris at opentext.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks for pointing this out.

I wonder why there is no exception installed for zlib.

Michal


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