Re: Bison bugs (memory leaks) found by valgrind in GLR-related tests

[Joel E. Denny]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Paul Eggert wrote:

> twlevo <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > noticed if valgrind is configured in
> > tests/Makefile.am with the option
> > '$(VALGRIND) --leak-check=full -q'
> > some error messages in GLR tests
> > 127-135 appear.
> >
> > maybe some improvement needed?
>
> I reproduced this problem by running the following command:
>
> cd tests
> ./testsuite -v -d PREBISON='valgrind -q'  PREPARSER='valgrind --leak-check=full 
> -q' 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144
>
> A lot of the cxx-type.at tests failed due to memory leaks (the tests
> were: 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135).  Perhaps Joel E. Denny or
> Paul Hilfinger could look at those?  Some of them look like they might
> be bugs in the GLR parser itself.

Unfortunately, I don't have a linux box set up, and I'm pretty sure 
valgrind requires the kernel.  I've been meaning to set one up 
specifically for valgrind, but it won't be any time soon.

Joel