[mythtv] Compiling myth with bounds-checking

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Mon Feb 27 23:36:33 UTC 2006


On Monday 27 February 2006 05:23, Buzz wrote:
> Hey all, I'm currently in-progress getting myth to compile with the
> 'bounds-checking' extension for GCC 4.0.2.
> ( see: http://sourceforge.net/projects/boundschecking/ )
>
> It's an interesting experience, and I just thought I'd put out a feeler to
> see if anyone has done similar before.    I'm getting a significant (huge)
> number of errors (multiple frees, NULL references, etc) that are being
> detected, and will be feeding these back to the list over the coming
> days/weeks, as I get a handle of the ins-and-outs of the myth compile/build
> process more.

I've done some valgrind cleanups, and I think Daniel has as well.  Nothing 
terribly recently, though.  Just make sure you only report stuff that's in 
myth, not in X, Qt, etc (unless caused by myth, of course).

Isaac


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