Valgrind's wine_cp_wcstombs warnings

[Jordan Ayers]

> Hi,
>
> running the MCI tests with Valgrind generates a lot of output like follows
>
> ==13170== Use of uninitialised value of size 4
> ==13170==    at 0x4035369: wine_cp_wcstombs (wctomb.c:147)
> ...[every line from 148 to 161]
> ==13170== Use of uninitialised value of size 4
> ==13170==    at 0x403550A: wine_cp_wcstombs (wctomb.c:162)
>
> I suspect the A<->W mapping is still not fully correct (I know at
> least one more case, but I'm not sure it gets triggered by the tests)
> but perhaps it's also the W->UNIX.UTF-8 conversions internal to Wine
> which cause these hits.  How do I tell?
>
> Is there any way to get more precise reporting for the above messages
> (e.g. a backtrace)?  The present output is not helpful at identifying
> the origin of the uninitialised read.
>
> Perhaps Valgrind is broken? Why does it mention "size 4" when all
> access in the offending function is either "char *" or "short *"
> according to the source
> http://source.winehq.org/source/libs/wine/wctomb.c#L145 ?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> 	Jörg Höhle

Joerg,
    If you're on a 32-bit system, your pointers would be where the
'size 4' is coming from.  It looks like Valgrind thinks a pointer
being dereferenced isn't initialized.  (maybe src?)

Jordan Ayers