Quoting "Dallman, John" <[email protected]>: >> Oh yes, I forgot about those :) You have a good point, but still, the >> effort for recompiling the libraries and other required code for this >> purpose might be much less than trying to find an uninitialized >> variable in some cumbersome code. > > It might. But it seems unlikely. To the best of my knowledge, most > open source packages are not routinely tested in builds with packed > structures, and are very rarely built that way in the first place. > > You seem to be assuming that your entire OS will just work, correctly, > when rebuilt with packed structures. Do you have any basis for that > assumption? What odds do you reckon you're looking at, and how long > to sort out the problems? Are you experienced at debugging every > single part of your OS? And debugging Valgrind? > > I suggest you try it. That will likely be the easiest way of convincing > yourself that this is a poor idea. > >> Lets say that all of the difficulties we discussed until now have been >> resolved. > > You have not reached that situation. >
You are right, I tried to recompile everything and the compilation of standard c++ libraries etc. fail. Sorry for wasting your time I guess :( Thanks, Evren ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
