[LLVMdev] Memory leaks in LLVM on linux

Villmow, Micah Micah.Villmow at amd.com
Tue Jan 17 08:37:18 PST 2012


Thanks!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Potapenko [mailto:ramosian.glider at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 12:36 AM
> To: Villmow, Micah
> Cc: Chris Lattner; LLVM Developers Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Memory leaks in LLVM on linux
> 
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Villmow, Micah <Micah.Villmow at amd.com>
> wrote:
> > Also, this can be easily reproduced with the following command:
> >
> > valgrind --tool=memcheck --show-reachable=yes --leak-check=full
> > --track-origins=yes --leak-check=full opt -disable-opt -O0 <some
> random
> > bitcode file>
> >
> >
> >
> > Micah
> >
> 
> Hi Micah,
> 
> the --show-reachable=yes option of Valgrind is a bit too much for
> practical use, see
> http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/mc-manual.html#mc-manual.leaks
> These leaks are most certainly bound and can't cause major memory
> problems during the program execution.
> 
> HTH,
> Alex






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