Bug 206618

Summary: ptrcheck complains about things allocated with alloca
Product: [Developer tools] valgrind Reporter: Tom Hughes <tom>
Component: sgcheckAssignee: Julian Seward <jseward>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal CC: mark, zoharg
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 3.5 SVN   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Unlisted Binaries   
OS: Linux   
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Description Tom Hughes 2009-09-07 13:05:54 UTC
Created attachment 36766 [details]
Test case

Any memory allocated on the stack with alloca is not recognised by ptrcheck leading it to complain about out of bounds accesses because it doesn't realise alloca has been used.
Comment 1 Tom Hughes 2011-10-05 07:41:59 UTC
*** Bug 283374 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Mark Wielaard 2023-11-17 00:20:21 UTC
Sorry, exp-sgcheck (named exp-ptrcheck prior to version 3.7), was removed in version 3.16.0.