On 2014-09-21 08:08, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 14:34 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: >> Cool, I did not know this was possible. So how does valgrind know that >> it should pick this file up and use it? Does it also work with >> out-of-tree builds? > > Valgrind picks up the file when you give the option > --suppressions=<file>. I don't see why this wouldn't work in out-of-tree > builds, since the matching is (in this case) made only based on the > function name where the error happens. Right. >> Could there be a comment in the file as well what it >> is about and how to use it? > > Probably. I didn't notice any information about comments when I read the > syntax documentation, but I didn't particularly look for that either. > I'll add a comment in v2 if I figure out how to do that. Looking at /usr/lib/valgrind/default.supp, it seems like # indicates a comment line. (Or maybe we could even get some valgrind developer to fix the root cause, that would be even better...maybe we can grab someone in D?sseldorf, if they're present?) -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https://launchpad.net/~diwic
