[Gluster-devel] catching unitialized structures

Vijay Bellur vbellur at redhat.com
Mon Apr 29 17:35:54 UTC 2013


On 04/29/2013 10:31 PM, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Hi
>
> I found an uninitialized mutex and I am tracking another one. This is
> not the first time I hit this kind of problem, which is invisible to
> Linux developpers since Linux allows using an uninitialized mutex.
>
> I suggest chaning GF_CALLOC and friends so that it fills memory
> with 0xdeadbeef during developement cycles. That would help people
> catching that kind og issues earlier.
>

Maybe with -DDEBUG?

-Vijay





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