106 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Florian Krohm
9d16aabb17 Constify the tool interface.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@14642
2014-10-20 19:02:38 +00:00
Florian Krohm
f5e2bdbddc Change the definition of VgHashTable to not have pointer type.
This is (a) consistent with how the other containers are defined
and, more importantly, (b) allows the constification of the hash table API.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@14639
2014-10-18 10:58:05 +00:00
Florian Krohm
5929994d48 Merge revisions 14230, 14602, and 14604 from the BUF_REMOVAL branch to trunk.
The change eliminates the fixed size buffers in gen_suppression and
show_used_suppressions. This is achieved by changing the return type from
VG_TDICT_CALL(tool_get_extra_suppression_info and
VG_TDICT_CALL(tool_print_extra_suppression_use from Bool to SizeT.
A return value of 0 indicates that nothing (except the terminating '\0'
which is always inserted) was written to the buffer. This corresponds to the
previous False return value. A return value which is equal to the buffer
size (that was passed in as function argument) indicates that the buffer was
not large enough. The caller then resizes the buffer and retries.
Otherwise, the buffer was large enough.
Regtested with a resize value of 1.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@14606
2014-10-07 14:28:52 +00:00
Florian Krohm
e383c673dd Ripple from constifying parameters of instrumentation functions and
callbacks from VexTranslateArgs. See VEX r2958.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@14564
2014-09-24 12:06:55 +00:00
Julian Seward
7566a219b0 Memcheck: add a new flag, --show-mismatched-frees=no|yes [yes], to
optionally disable allocator/deallocator mismatch checking.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@14336
2014-08-22 19:26:23 +00:00
Philippe Waroquiers
2f460aaec6 The attached patch cleanups the clo processing
of clo which are (or should be) 'enum set'.

* pub_tool_options.h : add new macrox VG_USET_CLO and VG_USETX_CLO to
  parse an 'enum set' command line option (with or without "all" keyword).

* use VG_USET_CLO for existing enum set clo options:
   memcheck --errors-for-leak-kinds, --show-leak-kinds, --leak-check-heuristics
   coregrind --vgdb-stop-at

* change --sim-hints and --kernel-variants to enum set
  (this allows to detect user typos: currently, a typo in a sim-hint
   or kernel variant is silently ignored. Now, an error will be given
   to the user)

* The 2 new sets (--sim-hints and --kernel-variants) should not make
  use of the 'all' keyword => VG_(parse_enum_set) has a new argument
  to enable/disable the use of the "all" keyword.

* The macros defining an 'all enum' set definition was duplicating
  all enum values (so addition of a new enum value could easily
  give a bug). Removing these macros as they are unused
  (to the exception of the leak-kind set).
  For this set, the 'all macro' has been replaced by an 'all function',
  coded using parse_enum_set parsing the "all" keyword.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@14301
2014-08-17 20:03:51 +00:00
Philippe Waroquiers
6629c56543 Add a new heuristic 'length64' to detect interior pointers
pointing at offset 64bit of a block, when the first 8 bytes contains
the block size - 8. This is e.g. used by sqlite3MemMalloc.

Patch by Matthias Schwarzott (with small modif)



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@14179
2014-07-21 19:55:11 +00:00
Florian Krohm
0e951964ef Provide a back trace when a function argument of a known allocation
function is presumably negative. Fixes BZ 79311.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@14157
2014-07-13 14:41:55 +00:00
Julian Seward
dbf9b63605 Update copyright dates (20XY-2012 ==> 20XY-2013)
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13658
2013-10-18 14:27:36 +00:00
Philippe Waroquiers
619be966db Allow tools to provide some statistics in suppression list produced at the end
Option -v outputs a list of used suppressions. This only gives
the nr of times a suppression was used.
For a leak search, this only gives the nr of loss records that
have been suppressed, but it does not give additional needed details
to understand more precisely what has been suppressed
(i.e. nr of blocks and nr of bytes).

=> Add in the tool interface update_extra_suppression_use and
print_extra_suppression_info functions to allow the tool to record
additioonal use statistics for a suppression. These statistics
can be done depending on the error (and its data) which is suppressed.

Use this in memcheck for the leak suppressions, to maintain and output
the nr of blocks and bytes suppressed by a suppression during
the last leak search.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13651
2013-10-17 22:10:41 +00:00
Philippe Waroquiers
fa45410976 Fix assert for who_points_at monitor cmd for an interiorly pointed block
* fix the assert
* some better comments
* update test to verify who_points_at behaviour with an interiorly pointed block



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13609
2013-10-02 20:59:05 +00:00
Philippe Waroquiers
e2ba2f3671 add heuristics decreasing false possible "possible leaks" in c++ code.
The option --leak-check-heuristics=heur1,heur2,... can activate
various heuristics to decrease the number of false positive
"possible leaks" for C++ code. The available heuristics are
detecting valid interior pointers to std::stdstring, to new[] allocated
arrays with elements having destructors and to interior pointers pointing
to an inner part of a C++ object using multiple inheritance.

This fixes 280271 Valgrind reports possible memory leaks on still-reachable
std::string 

This has been tested on x86/amd64/ppc32/ppc64.

First performance measurements seems to show a neglectible impact on
the leak search.

More feedback welcome both on performance and functional aspects
(false positive 'possibly leaked' rate decrease and/or 
false negative 'possibly leaked' rate increase).

Note that the heuristic is not checking that the memory has been
allocated with "new" or "new[]", as it is expected that in some cases,
specific alloc fn are used for c++ objects instead of the standard new/new[].
If needed, we might add an option to check the alloc functions
to be new/new[].



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13582
2013-09-29 13:47:32 +00:00
Julian Seward
cd24a631d9 Add support for direct V256 shadow helper returns -- memcheck side.
(Patrick J. LoPresti, lopresti@gmail.com).  Bug 294285.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13500
2013-08-16 08:31:29 +00:00
Julian Seward
f865a853ee Fix # 294285: --partial-loads-ok does not work for 16-byte SSE loads
(core fixes for the memcheck handling of 128 bit loads)
(Patrick J. LoPresti, lopresti@gmail.com)



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13488
2013-08-08 10:41:46 +00:00
Philippe Waroquiers
4c9052b4d6 fix incorrect lineno in supp error msgs+ -v give filename+lineno of used supp.
If a suppression file contains an error, the lineno reported could be wrong.
Also, give filename and lineno of the used suppressions in -v debugging output.

The fix consists in ensuring that tool specific read_extra function gets
the Int* lineno pointer, together with other VG_(get_line) parameters.






git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13469
2013-07-22 22:00:13 +00:00
Philippe Waroquiers
739ae0bcb6 Implement --keep-stacktraces=alloc|free|alloc-and-free|alloc-then-free|none
The option --keep-stacktraces controls which stack trace(s) to keep for
malloc'd and/or free'd blocks. This can be used to obtain more information
for 'use after free' errors or to decrease Valgrind memory and/or cpu usage
by recording less information for heap blocks.

This fixes 312913 Dangling pointers error should also report the alloc
stack trace.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13223
2013-01-12 19:53:08 +00:00
Philippe Waroquiers
1618b44d28 Fix 284540 and 307465
284540 Memcheck shouldn't count suppressions matching still-reachable allocations
307465 --show-possibly-lost=no should bring down the error count / exit code

Using the options --show-leak-kinds=kind1,kind2,.. and
--errors-for-leak-kinds=kind1,kind2,.., each leak kind (definite, indirect,
possible, reachable) can now be individually reported and/or counted as
an error.
In a leak suppression entry, an optional line 'match-leak-kinds:'
controls which leak kinds are suppressed by this entry.
This is a.o. useful to avoid definite leaks being "catched"
by a suppression entry aimed at suppressing possibly lost blocks.
Default behaviour is the same as 3.8.1

Old args (--show-reachable and --show-possibly-lost) are still accepted.

Addition of a new test (memcheck/tests/lks) testing the new args
and the new suppression line.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13170
2012-12-08 17:54:16 +00:00
Florian Krohm
d0aa69c331 Fix more Char/HChar mixups. Closing in...
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13119
2012-11-10 22:29:54 +00:00
Florian Krohm
5337376bf2 More Char/HChar fixes and constification.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13088
2012-10-27 18:39:11 +00:00
Florian Krohm
79b79d6388 First round of Char/HChar fixups for coregrind and memcheck.
Little bit of ripple in tools, too.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13074
2012-10-21 19:43:43 +00:00
Florian Krohm
2ec0ec9bb0 First round of Char/HChar fixes for memcheck.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13071
2012-10-21 03:43:20 +00:00
Florian Krohm
7d59048401 This is the 2nd installment of the cache info reorganisation.
The host's VexArchInfo is passed to the tool instrumentation
functions. Purely mechanic patch.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13031
2012-10-07 21:59:42 +00:00
Julian Seward
4a3633e266 Update copyright dates to include 2012.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12843
2012-08-05 15:46:46 +00:00
Philippe Waroquiers
d045b4236a Implement --redzone-size and --core-redzone-size
* For tools replacing the malloc library (e.g. Memcheck, Helgrind, ...),
  the option --redzone-size=<number> allows to control the padding 
  blocks (redzones) added before and after each client allocated block.
  Smaller redzones decrease the memory needed by Valgrind. Bigger
  redzones increase the chance to detect blocks overrun or underrun.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12807
2012-07-31 22:17:28 +00:00
Julian Seward
8ebb8c30e5 Add initial support for Intel AVX instructions (Valgrind side).
Tracker bug is #273475.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12569
2012-05-21 10:18:10 +00:00
Philippe Waroquiers
ce806ed31f (fixes bug 289939 wish: complete monitor cmd 'leak_check' with details
about leaked or reachable blocks)

This patch implements two new memcheck gdbserver monitor commands:
  block_list <loss_record_nr>
        after a leak search, shows the list of blocks of <loss_record_nr>
  who_points_at <addr> [<len>]
        shows places pointing inside <len> (default 1) bytes at <addr>
        (with len 1, only shows "start pointers" pointing exactly to <addr>,
         with len > 1, will also show "interior pointers")


Compiled and reg-tested on f12/x86, deb5/amd64, f16/ppc64.

The 'block_list' command is implemented on top of the 
lr_array/lc_chunks/lc_extras arrays used during the last leak search.
NB: no impact on the memory for the typical Valgrind usage where a leak
search is only done at the end of the run.
Printing the block_list of a loss record simply consists in scanning the
lc_chunks to find back the chunks corresponding to the loss record for which
block lists is requested.

The 'who_points_at' command is implemented by doing a scan similar to 
(but simpler than) the leak search scan.
lc_scan_memory has been enhanced to have a mode to search for a specific
address, rather than to search for all allocated blocks.
VG_(apply_to_GP_regs) has been enhanced to also provide the ThreadId and
register name in the callback function.

The patch touches multiple files (but most changes are easy/trivial or factorise
existing code).

Most significant changes are in memcheck/mc_leakcheck.c :
    * changed the LC_Extra struct to remember the clique for indirect leaks
      (size of structure not changed).
    * made lr_array a static global
    * changed lc_scan_memory:
        to have a search mode for a specific address (for who_points_at)
        (for leak search) to pass a 'current clique' in addition to the clique
         leader
         so as to have a proper clique hierarchy for indirectly leaked blocks.
    * print_results: reset values at the beginning of the print_result of the
      next leak search, rather than at the end of print_results of the previous
       leak search.
      This allows to continue showing the same info for loss records till a new
      leak search is done.
    * new function print_clique which recursively prints a group of leaked
      blocks, starting from the clique leader.
    * new function MC_(print_block_list) : calls print_clique for each clique
      leader found for the given loss record.
    * static void scan_memory_root_set : code extracted from
      MC_(detect_memory_leaks) (no relevant change)
    * void MC_(who_points_at) : calls scan_memory_root_set, lc_scan_memory
        and VG_(apply_to_GP_regs)(search_address_in_GP_reg) to search 
        pointers to the given address.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12357
2012-01-26 23:13:52 +00:00
Philippe Waroquiers
be97cddd7a Fixes 282230 group allocator for small fixed size, use it for MC_Chunk/SEc vbit
* new files include/pub_tool_groupalloc.h and coregrind/m_groupalloc.c
  implementing a group allocator (based on helgrind group alloc).
* include/Makefile.am coregrind/Makefile.am : added pub_tool_groupalloc.h
  and m_groupalloc.c
* helgrind/libhb_core.c : use pub_tool_groupalloc.h/m_groupalloc.c
  instead  of the local implementation.
* include/pub_tool_oset.h coregrind/m_oset.c : new function
  allowing to create an oset that will use a pool allocator.
  new function allowing to clone an oset (so as to share the pool alloc)
* memcheck/tests/unit_oset.c drd/tests/unit_bitmap.c : modified
  so that it compiles with the new m_oset.c
* memcheck/mc_main.c : use group alloc for MC_Chunk
  memcheck/mc_include.h : declare the MC_Chunk group alloc
* memcheck/mc_main.c : use group alloc for the nodes of the secVBitTable OSet
* include/pub_tool_hashtable.h coregrind/m_hashtable.c : pass the free node
  function in the VG_(HT_destruct).
  (needed as the hashtable user can allocate a node with its own alloc,
  the hash table destroy must be able to free the nodes with the user
  own free).
* coregrind/m_gdbserver/m_gdbserver.c : pass free function to VG_(HT_destruct)
* memcheck/mc_replace_strmem.c memcheck/mc_machine.c
  memcheck/mc_malloc_wrappers.c memcheck/mc_leakcheck.c
  memcheck/mc_errors.c memcheck/mc_translate.c : new include needed
  due to group alloc.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12341
2012-01-17 21:16:30 +00:00
Philippe Waroquiers
48046f6940 Added a new parameter to the memcheck 'leak_check' GDB monitor command
to let the user specify a max nr of loss records to output : on huge
applications, interactive display of a lot of records in gdb can
take a lot of time.


* mc_include.h : 
  - added UInt max_loss_records_output; to LeakCheckParams structure
  - avoid passing LeakCheckParams by struct copy.
* modified test gdbserver_tests/mcleak to test the new parameter
* mc_main.c : parse or set max_loss_records_output in leak_check cmd
  handling and calls.
* mc-manual.xml : document new leak_check parameter
* mc_leakcheck.c : 
  - extract printing rules logic in its own function
  - in print_results, if there is a limit in LeakCheckParam,
    compute from where the printing of loss records has to start

 



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12329
2012-01-14 13:53:13 +00:00
Julian Seward
c96096ab24 Update all copyright dates, from 20xy-2010 to 20xy-2011.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12206
2011-10-23 07:32:08 +00:00
Julian Seward
ae9c958f70 Improvements in freelist handling for Memcheck. See #250065.
(Philippe Waroquiers, philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be)

This patch provides three improvements in the way the free list is 
handled in memcheck.

First improvement: a new command line option --freelist-big-blocks
(default 1000000) specifies the size of "free list big blocks". 
Such big blocks will be put on the free list, but will be re-cycled first
(i.e. in preference to block having a smaller size).
This fixes the bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250065.
Technically, the freed list is divided in two lists : small
and big blocks. Blocks are first released from the big block list.

Second improvement: the blocks of the freed list are re-cycled before
a new block is malloc-ed, not after a block is freed.
This gives better error messages for dangling pointer errors
when doing many frees without doing malloc between the frees.
(this does not uses more memory).

Third improvement: a block bigger than the free list volume will be
put in the free list (till a malloc is done, so as the needed memory
is not bigger than before) but will be put at the beginning of the
free list, rather than at the end. So, allocating then freeing such a
block does not cause any blocks in the free list to be released.

Results of the improvements above, with the new regression test
memcheck/test/big_blocks_freed_list: with the patch, 7 errors
are detected, 6 are giving the (correct) allocation stack.
Without the patch, only 6 errors are detected, 5 errors without
allocation stack, 1 with a (wrong) allocation stack.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12202
2011-10-22 19:48:57 +00:00
Julian Seward
97c113e7e0 valgrind and tool mon. cmds prefixes changes + doc fixes + new vgdb option
--cmd-time-out

* changed prefixes of Valgrind core monitor commands from vg. to v.
* removed prefixes of Tool monitor commands
* memcheck leak_check 'leakpossible' arg renamed to 'possibleleak'
* memcheck make_memory 'ifaddressabledefined' arg renamed to
'Definedifaddressable'
    (with uppercase D to avoid confusion with 'defined' arg).
* vgdb options
  - Some doc updates : more logical option order documentation,
       specify 'standalone' for options aimed at standalone usage.
  - added option --cmd-time-out for standalone vgdb
     (comment of Josef Weindendorfer, needed to interface with a callgrind GUI)
* updated tests according to the above.
* updated documentation according to the above.
* some additional minor doc fixes/clarifications

(Philippe Waroquiers, philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be).  Bug 214909
comment 111.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11844
2011-06-28 08:20:39 +00:00
Julian Seward
5c1e65aa42 Memcheck:
* add delta leak checking functionality
* some editing of related manual sections
(Philippe Waroquiers, philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be).  Bug 214909
comment 105.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11838
2011-06-26 12:41:33 +00:00
Julian Seward
2ee9e90486 Implement a GDB server in Valgrind. See #214909.
(Philippe Waroquiers, philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be)



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11727
2011-05-06 21:02:55 +00:00
Bart Van Assche
9df672f236 Add VALGRIND_RESIZEINPLACE_BLOCK() and hence close #267819.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11666
2011-03-25 20:07:25 +00:00
Bart Van Assche
8122b2aaef Added new memcheck command-line option --show-possibly-lost. Closes #201170.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11292
2010-08-26 10:56:27 +00:00
Julian Seward
9b0574dff8 Update copyright dates to 2010.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11121
2010-05-03 21:37:12 +00:00
Julian Seward
5b1edb07f6 When generating XML output for suppressions, print the suppression
both wrapped up in XML tags (as before) but also in plain text in a
sequence of CDATA blocks.  Normally only one, but in the worst case
the raw data will have ]]> in it, in which case it needs to be split
across two CDATA blocks.

This apparently simple change involved a lot of refactoring of the
suppression printing machinery:

* in the core-tool iface, change "print_extra_suppression_info" (which
  prints any auxiliary info) to "get_extra_suppression_info", which
  parks the text in a caller-supplied buffer.  Adjust tools to match.

* VG_(apply_StackTrace): accept a void* argument, which is passed to
  each invokation of the functional parameter (a poor man's closure
  implementation).

* move PRINTF_CHECK into put_tool_basics.h, where it should have been
  all along

* move private printf-into-an-XArray-of-character functions from
  m_debuginfo into m_xarray, and make them public

* gen_suppression itself: use all the above changes.  Basically we
  always generate the plaintext version into an XArray.  In text mode
  that's just printed.  In XML mode, we print the XMLery as before,
  but the plaintext version is dumped into a CDATA block too.

* update the Protocol 4 specification to match all this.

This still isn't 100% right in the sense that the CDATA block data
needs to be split across multiple blocks if it should ever contain the
CDATA end mark "]]>".  The Protocol 4 spec has this right even though
the implementation currently doesn't.

Fixes #191189.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10822
2009-08-15 22:41:51 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
675914e025 Try to fix error_counts.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10768
2009-08-10 08:25:39 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
6fd1b000e4 Allow custom blocks to overlap with malloc blocks. Fixes bug 100628.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10765
2009-08-10 07:36:54 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
68efb29503 A fix for bug 186796: suppression symbol names were being truncated if they
were longer than 200 chars.  Now dynamic memory is used and so they can be
arbitrarily long in theory, although in practice it bombs out at 100,000 for
sanity purposes.  This required adjusting the core/tool interface for
read_extra_suppression_info().  


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10581
2009-07-24 07:38:29 +00:00
Julian Seward
4f730a3c8e Merge memcheck/ changes from branches/MESSAGING_TIDYUP r10464.
See trunk r10465 commit message for details.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10467
2009-07-15 14:49:40 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
fbe37d96a8 Fix bug #191182, where printing the leak checker results was really slow if
there were a lot of loss records.

The fix was:
- Avoid the O(m * n) looping over the chunks when creating the loss
  records, by putting loss records into an OSet instead of a list, which
  makes duplicate detection for each chunk an O(log n) operation instead of
  an O(n) operation.
- Avoid the looping over loss records which was used to do a poor
  man's sort, but was O(n^2).  Instead copy pointers to the loss records
  from the OSet into an array and sort it normally with VG_(ssort) (n log n,
  usually) before printing.

This approach was similar to that used in the patch Philippe attached to the
bug report.

Other changes:
- Added Philippe's test programs in the new memcheck/perf directory.  It
  used to take 57s on my machine, now it takes 1.6s.
- Cleaned up massif/perf/Makefile.am to be consistent with other Makefiles.
- Improved some comments relating to VgHashTable and OSet.
- Avoided a redundant traversal of the hash table in VG_(HT_to_array), also
  identified by Philippe..
- Made memcheck/tests/mempool's results independent of the pointer size, and
  thus was able to remove its .stderr.exp64 file.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@9781
2009-05-06 06:15:55 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
5a682bb3cf Renamed various things for clarity. Added some comments. And fixed the
dubious find-minimum-loss-record loop in print_results(), which was using an
inconsistent mixture of szB and szB+indirect_szB.  

Two test results changed, just different sort orders for same-sized loss
records.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@9704
2009-05-01 00:30:43 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
2001629c3f Updated copyright years.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@9344
2009-03-10 22:02:09 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
bafed25ae9 This commit completely overhauls the leak checker. In particular:
- It heavily refactors the code:  uses better names for things, splits up
  complex functions that behaved very differently depending on how they were
  called, removes some redundancies, and generally makes it much simpler and
  easier to follow.

- It adds lots of comments, both inline, and also a big explanatory one at
  the top which makes it clear exactly how the leak checker works and also
  exactly what is meant by definite, possible, and indirect leaks.  It also
  has some ideas for future improvements.

- All tabs have been converted to spaces.

It also improves the functionality:

- Previously if you did --leak-check=summary, indirect and suppressed
  blocks were counted as definite leaks.  Now they are done properly, and so
  the summary results from --leak-check=summary match those from
  --leak-check=yes.

- Previously, some possibly reachable blocks were miscategorised as
  definitely reachable, because only the pointer to the block itself was
  considered, not any preceding pointers in the chain.  This is now fixed.

- Added memcheck/tests/leak-cases, which fully tests all the possible
  combinations of directly/indirectly reachable and possibly/definitely
  reachable.

And it improves the manual quite a bit, and the FAQ a little bit.

This doesn't fix the leak checker to handle MALLOCLIKE_BLOCK works that have
been taken from within malloc'd blocks, but I think I know how to do it and
hope to do so in a subsequent commit.

It also changes all instances of "<constant>memcheck</constant>" in the
Memcheck manual to "Memcheck", for consistency and because "Memcheck" is
easier to write.  There's one similar case for DRD but I didn't change that.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@9330
2009-03-09 22:52:24 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
e97076e0f3 Merge r9299..r9303 (various leak-check test fixes) from the DARWIN branch.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@9304
2009-03-02 05:11:06 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
5aac956e64 Remove a number of unused parameters, found with -Wunused-parameter.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@9248
2009-02-24 03:07:37 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
3ed4532cde In the core, include malloc_usable_size() as one of the functions that must
be replaced if malloc() et al are replaced by a tool.  This is because
different tools implement the function in different ways.

Add an appropriate malloc_usable_size() replacement to each of Memcheck,
Helgrind, DRD, Ptrcheck, Massif.

Update memcheck/tests/malloc_usable and add massif/tests/malloc_usable.

Merged from the DARWIN branch.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@9193
2009-02-17 04:31:18 +00:00
Julian Seward
18e9141fb7 Fix a silly mistake resulting in a bunch of global variables being
defined in all the object files in Memcheck.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@8445
2008-07-18 20:15:46 +00:00
Julian Seward
0d5557aee9 Minor cleanups:
* remove 'extern' in all the headers, as that is irrelevant and wastes
  horizontal space

* fix some 64-bit uncleanness in client(-defined) block handling

* remove unneeded #includes



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7987
2008-05-02 11:25:17 +00:00