Control: severity -1 normal Control: tags -1 upstream wontfix Hello,
On Wednesday 17 of July 2013 11:42:12 Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > By default ctest -T MemCheck runs: > > 35: MemCheck command: /usr/bin/valgrind "-q" "--tool=memcheck" > "--leak-check=yes" "--show-reachable=yes" "--workaround-gcc296-bugs=yes" > "--num-callers=50" > > However as per documentation: > > When enabled, assume that reads and writes some small distance below the > stack pointer are due to bugs in GCC 2.96, and does not report them. The > "small distance" is 256 bytes by default. Note that GCC 2.96 is the default > compiler on some ancient Linux distributions (RedHat 7.X) and so you may > need to use this option. Do not use it if you do not have to, as it can > cause real errors to be overlooked. A better alternative is to use a more > recent GCC in which this bug is fixed. > > Since GCC 2.96 never entered debian, I would really like to see this option > removed. I'm against changing Debian cmake behaviour (in comparison to vanilla one) unless it is absolutely necessary. Therefore, I think upstream should remove this option or better yet do GCC version detection. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
