RE: Purified gnome libraries???

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Has anyone had luck using valgrind with a GTK app? I get pages of errors 
before I get to my code that it hardly seems worth using. Is there a trick 
to using it, or perhaps something is screwy with my setup.

Deron

> > Just wondering if anyone has run the gnome/gtk/gdk/etc, libraries
> > through Purify.  I'm redoing the GUI for the product I work on using
> > these libraries, (on Solaris) and when I run with Purify I'm seeing
> > lots and lots of problems.  Hundreds of uninitialized memory
> > references
> > and invalid pointer reads.  I'm also seeing random crashes, which I'm
> > attributing to memory corruption from these libs, as when I
> > run without
> > them (the gui is soft-loadable) and use Motif instead, I don't see any
> > crashes.
>
> Probably not, Purify is a commercial application isn't it? Which goes
> against the GPL ethic(s).
>
> I think valgrind is the closest thing.
>
> Regards,
> Martyn