Re: valgrind error - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: valgrind error
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Msg-id 1647550.1591412604@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: valgrind error  (Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>)
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Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 12:17:54PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> as you have it, I'd prefer to use
>> -       fun:pg_comp_crc32c
>> +       fun:pg_comp_crc32c_sb8
>> which precisely matches what 4f700bc did.  The other way seems like
>> it's giving a free pass to problems that could lurk in unrelated CRC
>> implementations.

> The undefined data is in the CRC input, namely the padding bytes in xl_*
> structs.

Oh, I see.  Objection withdrawn.

> Apparently, valgrind-3.15.0 doesn't complain about undefined input
> to _mm_crc32_u* functions.  We should not be surprised if Valgrind gains the
> features necessary to complain about the other implementations.

Perhaps it already has ... I wonder if anyone's tried this on ARMv8
lately.

            regards, tom lane



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