Re: [PATCH] MALLOC_CHECK: Allow checking to be disabled from config.mak

> Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>> The malloc checks can be disabled using the TEST_NO_MALLOC_CHECK
>> variable, either from the environment or command line of an
>> 'make test' invocation. In order to allow the malloc checks to be
>> disabled from the 'config.mak' file, we add TEST_NO_MALLOC_CHECK
>> to the environment using an export directive.
>
> We would want to encourage people to test with cheap but effective
> checks when available.  I do not see "malloc: using debugging hooks"
> message anywhere when I run tests, but if you do, I'd rather see us
> check if we can tell glibc to stop doing so first without disabling
> the whole test.  Your patch feels like the first step to a slipperly
> slope whose destination would make us say "we get too many messages
> so let's do nothing in "make test" with this configuration." when
> taken to the extreme, and obviously we would not want to go there
> ;-).
>
> Elia, you brought the MALLOC_CHECK_ up.  Did you hear about this
> issue elsewhere before, and if you did, do you know how other
> projects solves it?
>
> Besides, doesn't a simple instruction to export TEST_NO_MALLOC_CHECK
> to your environment before running "make test" suffice?
>
>