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by paulf38 1y ago
Valgrind has a long history, it is now about 23 years old. Over that period it has used several systems to host the source repo, web site and bug database. At the time of writing, sourceware hosts both the web site and git repo, sourceforge
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Valgrind 3.26 Released(sourceforge.net)
1 points by paulf38 1y ago|3 comments
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by paulf38 1y ago
Yes indeed. The backdoor author did try to claim that it was a false positive (and I’m sure that a very depressingly large number of people would happily go along with such a claim even without a scrap of evidence). The error was related to
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Valgrind-3.26.0.RC1 is available for testing(sourceforge.net)
1 points by paulf38 1y ago|0 comments
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by paulf38 1y ago
C is the language that benefits the most from tools like Valgrind. It's just so easy in C to write code with memory faults. Memcheck (the main tool) has shortcomings (very slow, does not detect all kinds of errors). Its strongest point
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by paulf38 1y ago
If any macOS experts could help with this port it would be most welcome. Apple have been making big changes that keep breaking things and Valgrind has not kept up. Louis Brunner has done an amazing job more or less single handedly managed t
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by paulf38 1y ago
That's a 15 year old blog post and the linked GH repo hasn't been updated.
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by paulf38 1y ago
That's quite nice. There is a small risk that the client request mechanism might change . The headers don't change much - mostly when a new platform gets added. Go is only targeting amd64 and arm64. This isn't so much about l