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The Valgrind Project releases version 3.4.0

The Valgrind Project releases version 3.4.0

Posted Jan 15, 2009 14:02 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
In reply to: The Valgrind Project releases version 3.4.0 by tialaramex
Parent article: The Valgrind Project releases version 3.4.0

According to Luciano Bello's talk at 25C3, valgrind warned about both lines. One function was always using uninitialised memory. The other was using a caller-provided buffer supposed to provide entropy and one of its callers was passing in uninitialised memory.

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The Valgrind Project releases version 3.4.0

Posted Jan 16, 2009 8:06 UTC (Fri) by liljencrantz (guest, #28458) [Link]

Which is why the OP said NOT to "just modify the code more or less randomly until the error goes away".

The Valgrind Project releases version 3.4.0

Posted Jan 28, 2009 1:41 UTC (Wed) by bluefoxicy (guest, #25366) [Link]

One of its callers was passing uninitialized memory... uninitialized memory for write is harmless, and otherwise you need to fix its caller!


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