Paul Eggert wrote:

> On 03/15/2012 05:04 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> I.e., can valgrind be taught that when a
>> memmove call appears to read a few bytes beyond end of the source buffer,
>> that it is ok, as long the overrun is consistent with the alignment of
>> the source pointer?
>
> Sure, just fix valgrind; this should be easy since it supplies
> its own memmove.  See:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705790
>
> which talks about just such a fix for Fedora 15.
>
> Hmm, but why are you seeing the problem in Fedora *17*?
> Is that a regression?  Or was there some problem with the fix?

Thanks.  I've filed a BZ for valgrind (essentially copying my post):

  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/803802

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