[zeromq-dev] ZMQ_MAKE_VALGRIND_HAPPY

[Martin Sustrik]

On 04/21/2011 09:56 PM, Pieter Hintjens wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Martin Sustrik<sustrik at 250bpm.com>  wrote:
>
>> Great. Can we add that to the package? When done, I can get rid of the
>> ZMQ_MAKE_VALGRIND_HAPPY stuff.
>
> The file, and documentation is at http://www.zeromq.org/docs:using-valgrind
>
> There's been zero feedback on the file, so I've no idea if it's
> complete or not. It works for the Guide examples and the libzapi
> selftests, but it covers only a few of the actual
> ZMQ_MAKE_VALGRIND_HAPPY spots.
>
> It can certainly go into the package but we need to provide
> documentation somehow. A man page won't do it IMO. Perhaps a link to
> this doc page from the download page. Perhaps a README in the
> distribution.

Aha. I thought it's possible to install the suppression file along the 
library so that valgrind can automatically take it into account, but 
that doesn't seem to be the case. Sorry for confusion.

Martin