On 10/4/21 12:27 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Okt 04 2021, Chet Ramey wrote:
>
>> Nope. These are all functions internal to bash and the bash malloc, and
>> they are all defined.
>
> The problem is that the xmalloc macro redirects directly to the internal
> malloc implementation, whereas the xfree function calls it indirectly
> through the free function. The latter is seen by valgrind, the former
> isn't, so it didn't track it. Thus the xmalloc, xrealloc, xfree macros
> need to be disabled if valgrind is used.
OK, now we're back to the invalidating some of valgrind's assumptions.
For this, you can define DISABLE_MALLOC_WRAPPERS while building bash,
which has been there since at least bash-2.05b. I haven't built it that
way in quite a while, but it shouldn't have any problems.
Chet
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