In valgrind on FxOS devices (right now only nexus 4/5), we run checks against 
IPC. Unfortunately there's no automation there at the moment. We've got a goal 
to get IPC turned on for b2g desktop ASAP though, at which point we might be 
able to look at that.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicholas Nethercote" <n.netherc...@gmail.com>
> To: "Ehsan Akhgari" <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>
> Cc: "dev-platform" <dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 7:08:31 PM
> Subject: Re: We live in a memory-constrained world
> 
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Nick, do we run any kind of automated leak checking through valgrind?  I
> > found bug 976363 today, it's something that any automated leak detection
> > tool should be able to catch.
> 
> The Valgrind test job does leak checking, and it's recently caught
> some leaks and caused the offending patches to be backed out. However,
> the test coverage is pretty meagre, and it's desktop only so can't
> detect leaks in IPC code.
> 
> I believe the ASan builds also do leak checking. Their coverage is
> much better, but still doesn't cover IPC.
> 
> Nick
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