From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: [PATCH] reducing uninitialized memory warnings Date: 04 Oct 2002 00:23:40 +0200 Sender: bug-guile-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87vg4jupoz.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> References: <87r8f7wgav.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033706917 16078 127.0.0.1 (4 Oct 2002 04:48:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 04:48:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: is+guile@kaidea.freeserve.co.uk, bug-guile@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17xKO9-0004Al-00 for ; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 06:48:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17xKOX-00058w-00; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 00:48:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17xENl-0005TN-00 for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:23:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17xENi-0005Sx-00 for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:23:44 -0400 Original-Received: from dialin.speedway42.dip73.dokom.de ([195.138.42.73] helo=zagadka.ping.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.10) id 17xENh-0005Sl-00 for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:23:41 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 22030 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Oct 2002 22:23:40 -0000 Original-To: Neil Jerram In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: bug-guile-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:490 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:490 Neil Jerram writes: > Marius> Since this reduction is so small, I'm inclined not to > Marius> apply your patch. What do others say? > > Do the warnings indicate real problems, or are they false positives? > If real, we should fix them; if false, we shouldn't, because the fix > will generally impact performance, and instead we should send a report > to valgrind. The way I understand it, they are false positives. The warnings come when Guile is conservatively marking pointers in a region that hasn't been fully initialized. -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Bug-guile mailing list Bug-guile@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guile