The bug itself was solved in 3.12 by the addition of __gnu_cxx::__freeres
in the libstdc++ and have valgrind calling it before exit.
However, depending on the version of the libstdc++, the test leak_cpp_interior
was giving different results.
This commit adds some filtering specific to the test, so as to not depend
anymore of the absolute number of bytes leaked, and adds a suppression entry to
ignore the memory allocated by libstdc++.
This allows to have only 2 .exp files, instead of 4 (or worse, if
we would have to handle yet other .exp files depending on the libstdc++
version).
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
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
