On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Igor wrote:
Chances are that the uninitialized memory read errors aren't things that
need to be worried about; e.g. if you create a structure and only
use some parts of it, then write() the whole thing to somewhere, you'll
see that. I'll spend some time digging around in them and see if this is
the case... The bounds errors are, IMHO, the most important to tackle...
- -Tymm
> If I remember correctly, not all of there problems from Purifying the
> backend were memory leaks....there were array bounds errors ( should be
> easy to track down) and uninitialized memory being read...stuff like
> that...should be interesting...
>
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> Igor Natanzon |**| E-mail: igor@sba.miami.edu
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> On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >
> > > > >
> > > > > No it wasn't me...Somebody mailed the questions list a while ago (half a
> > > > > year maybe...my memory is not that good...) about purifying the
> > > > > code...Then I think somebody else mailed hackers list a week or two ago...
> > > >
> > > > I know Kurt started on it, but I never heard if he finished.
> > >
> > > Damn, now you have me curious...hold, back through my logs...found it:
> > >
> > > ===========================
> > > > Robert Withrow wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I think these need to be fixed before the release of 6.1. Otherwise
> > > > > this release is basicly a non-starter for any serious use, IMO. I say
> > > > > this because purify detects loads of *serious* problems in the backend
> > > > > while running the regression tests.
> > > > >
> > > ===========================
> > >
> > > I knew it wasn't Igor :) That was from around the 30th of May...
> >
> > I guess this answers my curiosity of what Igor is going to find running
> > Purify on the backend.
> >
> > When I originally thought about a postponement for the Purify run, I
> > thought it could all be done in a week. I did not expect so many bugs
> > being found.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bruce Momjian
> > maillist@candle.pha.pa.us
> >
>
>
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