Re: Great Refactor: Step 5: Remove all memory errors (Score: 1)
by Xaignar on Tuesday, July 13 @ 18:38:55 CDT
(User Info ) | Heya HopeSeekr.
I'm afraid that valgrind wont catch all mem bugs as you seem to imply. For instance, it doesn't catch the following:
char somearray[10];
somearray[10] = 0;
though it will catch this:
char* somearray = new char[10];
somearray[10] = 0;
Also, it doesn't always catch stuff like
class* someptr;
if ( <test> ) {
someptr = new <something>[x];
[...]
}
delete[] someptr;
Personally I've already done a quick audit of aMule for the second type of error (which did unearth a couple of bugs), and plan on doing a more throughout audit for other types of errors as well.
Cheers,
Xaignar |
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