Bug#516337: libc6: Valgrind shows conditionals depending on uninitialised values and read overruns
reassign 516337 valgrind
thanks
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 06:02:04PM +0000, Tony Houghton wrote:
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.9-1
> Severity: normal
>
> I routinely run newsstar under valgrind and there have been no problems
> for months until a recent dist-upgrade, when errors started appearing.
> It's hard to believe the problem is in libc6 and not my code (newsstar)
> but I think using uninitialised values is ultimately the fault of the
> function they're reported in, and the read overruns all seem to be in
> libc6 functions accessing memory blocks whose size were chosen by
> another libc6 function.
>
It's not a libc6 bug, valgrind is providing a glibc-2.7.supp file but is
missing a glibc-2.9.supp file. Reassigning the bug.
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