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Re: [PATCH] cache-tree: reject entries with null sha1

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 1, 2017, 19:22 UTC
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On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 01:23:28PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:
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> Am 24.04.2017 um 12:39 schrieb Duy Nguyen:
> > BTW, I ran t7009 with valgrind and it reported this. Is it something
> > we should be worried about? I vaguely recall you're doing something
> > with prio-queue...
> > 
> > ==4246== Source and destination overlap in memcpy(0x5952990, 0x5952990, 16)
> > ==4246==    at 0x4C2EACD: memcpy@@GLIBC_2.14 (in
> > /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
> > ==4246==    by 0x545D05: swap (prio-queue.c:15)
> > ==4246==    by 0x545D72: prio_queue_reverse (prio-queue.c:25)
> > ==4246==    by 0x4CBC0C: sort_in_topological_order (commit.c:723)
> > ==4246==    by 0x574C97: prepare_revision_walk (revision.c:2858)
> > ==4246==    by 0x48A2BA: cmd_rev_list (rev-list.c:385)
> > ==4246==    by 0x405A6F: run_builtin (git.c:371)
> > ==4246==    by 0x405CDC: handle_builtin (git.c:572)
> > ==4246==    by 0x405E51: run_argv (git.c:624)
> > ==4246==    by 0x405FF3: cmd_main (git.c:701)
> > ==4246==    by 0x4A48CE: main (common-main.c:43)
> 
> I can only get gcc and clang to call memcpy instead of inlining it by
> specifying -fno-builtin.  Do you use that option?  If yes, why?  (Just
> curious.)

I do my normal edit-compile cycles with -O0 because it's fast, and because it makes debugging much easier.

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> But I can't get Valgrind to report overlapping (nicely explained in
> http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/mc-manual.html#mc-manual.overlap, by
> the way), not for t7009 and not for the short test program at the
> bottom.  Do you set flags in GIT_VALGRIND_OPTIONS or use a special
> version of Valgrind?  I use valgrind-3.12.0.SVN from Debian testing.
I saw it with 3.12.0-1.1 on Debian unstable.
-Peff
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  2. Duy NguyenApr 24, 2017
  3. Jeff KingApr 24, 2017
  4. René ScharfeMay 1, 2017
  5. René ScharfeMay 1, 2017
  6. Jeff KingMay 1, 2017
  7. René ScharfeMay 1, 2017
  8. Jeff KingMay 1, 2017
  9. Duy NguyenMay 3, 2017
  10. René ScharfeMay 3, 2017

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