[issue32666] Valgrind documentation seems to need updating

Reuben Thomas added the comment: Victor, thanks; that's precisely the sort of thing that would make a useful addition to the docs. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue32666] Valgrind documentation seems to need updating

STINNER Victor added the comment: You may want to use PYTHONMALLOC=malloc environment variable, which changes the memory allocator from Python pymalloc to the regular libc malloc(). Valgrind false alarms come from pymalloc. -- nosy: +vstinner ___

[issue32666] Valgrind documentation seems to need updating

Brett Cannon added the comment: I don't think there is anyone specific who maintains it. Just whomever wants to use it next and needs to fix it to make it work. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue32666] Valgrind documentation seems to need updating

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Christian or Brett, do either of you know who maintains the Valgrind stuff? There is no listing in the Expert's index. -- nosy: +brett.cannon, christian.heimes, terry.reedy ___ Python tracker

[issue32666] Valgrind documentation seems to need updating

New submission from Reuben Thomas : I have just been trying to use Valgrind (in my case, to debug code in a library being tested via a Cython module). It is working fine, but there seem to be some discrepancies between the documentation in README.valgrind and