I don't suppose anyone has run any of gluster under the helgrind option of valgrind? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vijay Bellur" <vbellur@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Vijay Bellur" <vbellur@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 1:38:34 PM Subject: Re: catching unitialized structures On 04/29/2013 11:05 PM, Vijay Bellur wrote: > On 04/29/2013 10:31 PM, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: >> Hi >> >> I found an uninitialized mutex and I am tracking another one. This is >> not the first time I hit this kind of problem, which is invisible to >> Linux developpers since Linux allows using an uninitialized mutex. >> >> I suggest chaning GF_CALLOC and friends so that it fills memory >> with 0xdeadbeef during developement cycles. That would help people >> catching that kind og issues earlier. >> > > Maybe with -DDEBUG? > Hit send a bit too fast. There are a lot of places where we make an implicit assumption that GF_CALLOC and the likes memset the memory area to zero. It might not be an easy thing to achieve after all. -Vijay _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
