Re: overlapping strncpy/memcpy errors via valgrind

From: "anarazel(at)anarazel(dot)de" <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: overlapping strncpy/memcpy errors via valgrind
Date: 2013-02-17 19:39:59
Message-ID: 27655911-2fcf-44b5-85f5-b6b6c0859141@email.android.com
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Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com> schrieb:

>On 17 February 2013 18:52, anarazel(at)anarazel(dot)de <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
>wrote:
>> You already need a suppression file to use valgrind sensibly, its
>easy enough to add it there. Perhaps we should add one to the tree?
>
>Perhaps you should take the time to submit a proper Valgrind patch
>first. The current approach of applying the patch that Noah Misch
>originally wrote (but did not publicly submit, iirc) on an ad-hoc
>basis isn't great. That is what you've done here, right?

What patch are you talking about? I have no knowledge about any pending valgrind patches except one I made upstream apply to make pg inside valgrind work on amd64.

Andres

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