Re: Some analysis of starting a Gnome session under valgrind

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 14:05 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:

• giop_send_buffer_write in libORBit-2 leading to Syscall param writev(vector[...]) contains uninitialised or unaddressable byte(s) that time the uninitialized data is 10 bytes inside a block of size 2048 allocated within orbit itself.

For "performance reason" orbit doesn't initialize padding bytes. To make it do this, build with --enable-purify.

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