[asterisk-dev] Valgrind support in Asterisk Test Suite

[Scott Griepentrog]

Sounds like a job for Scott...

I for one would feel a lot happier running patches through valgrind testing
before posting it up for review.

I understand the need to keep it as cmd line option though so it's not run
by default.


On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Matthew Jordan <mjordan at digium.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Richard Mudgett <rmudgett at digium.com>wrote:
>
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>>
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>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:28 AM, nitesh bansal <nitesh.bansal at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> I am trying to write some test cases for asterisk which run under
>>> valgrind. I went through the SVN log
>>> and realized that valgrind support was removed in SVN revision 1962 in
>>> hope of finding a better solution in future.
>>> Could anyone tell me if there is a solution currently in testsuite to do
>>> memory checks, if no, should i try to merge the code for valgrind support
>>> which was present until SVN revision 1961.
>>>
>>
>> The testsuite is using the MALLOC_DEBUG menuselect option for memory
>> checks.
>>
>>
> Kind of. The testsuite by itself doesn't usually care whether or not
> MALLOC_DEBUG is enabled; the build agents that run the testsuite happen to
> compile Asterisk with MALLOC_DEBUG enabled.
>
> And valgrind can provide a lot of other functions beyond just memory
> corruption/leak analysis (and it does do a more complete job of that than
> MALLOC_DEBUG - although it pays a large price for that as well). Having the
> option to enable valgrind on a test run could be very useful for local
> systems; I wouldn't suggest it for the nightly builds.
>
> Matt
>
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