Package: valgrind
Version: 1:3.4.1-1
Severity: normal
Currently the --gen-suppressions option has possible values of "yes", "no", and
"all".
I believe that it would be good to have a value of "append" which when used
in conjunction with the --suppressions option would cause the generated
suppressions to be appended to the file.
Pasting the suppressions from the output of a running session to the
suppressions file is a pain and could easily be avoided.
Now I agree that generally such options that make it easy to mask errors have
risks, I don't believe that this is a problem in the case of valgrind. Firstly
I believe that valgrind users are more skilled than typical programmers and
therefore less likely to abuse such a feature. Secondly I believe that making
suppressions easier to use would help increase the use of valgrind which would
be a really good thing.
As an aside the man page valgrind(1) for version 3.4.1 has the following in the
suppressions section:
of careful editing, you may be able to suppress a whole family
of related errors with only a few suppressions. For details on
how to do this, see ???.
It would be nice to have something else replace the "???".
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