Why I think it's worth fixing Valgrind warnings
Scott Ritchie
scott at open-vote.org
Wed May 28 02:29:16 CDT 2008
Dan Kegel wrote:
> That said, it's important when fixing Valgrind errors to
> really understand the code you're changing, lest you
> paper over a bug with another bug, or make things worse.
*cough* Debian and OpenSSL *cough* ;)
On the other hand, you shouldn't have to be completely intimately
familiar with it like the original author was. It's a real problem if
our code can't be read by a reasonably skilled hacker and fixed properly
when Valgrind starts spewing warnings.
Thanks,
Scott Ritchie
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