[PATCH] Avoid use of uninitialized values in guid.c

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Feb 15 20:06:35 EST 2005


FYI, this patch is mostly applied.  Note that if readdir() returns
an unitialized dirent you can safely ignore that.  If it bothers you,
add a valgrind supression.  :)

-derek

Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:

> Quoting Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 06:13:33PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> > >  main (int argc, char **argv)
>> > >  {
>> > > -  scm_boot_guile(argc, argv, main_helper, NULL);
>> > > +  /* scm_boot_guile(argc, argv, main_helper, NULL); */
>> > > +  main_helper(NULL, argc, argv);
>> > >    return 0;
>> > 
>> > Why did you remove the scheme loading here?
>> 
>> Oh, I remember.  It was just a simplification for debugging purposes.
>> I was running with valgrind and gdb, and was just removing stuff
>> unrelated to the bugs.
>
> Ahh, ok.  Yea, guile has a lot of memory issues; it certainly is far from
> valgrind-clean.  That's why we've got the gnucash suppressions set up to ignore
> most stuff out of guile ;)
>
>> -chris
>
> -derek
>
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