Tuesday, October 01, 2019

Re: valgrind diff to fix run memcheck on amd64

On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 09:18:02AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:

> > Not sure about the pythons, but most things in base won't work due to pledge

> Which is a good thing. valgrind wants to do too much.

Yes. That's how I explained it not being available on the department
servers. I explained that to do its work, valgrind does horrible,
horrible things that OpenBSD is not fond of. I've shown them our malloc
options instead. Although we have a bunch of new faculty and it seems
that the older folks haven't passed any information along.

--Kurt

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