[PATCH wayland 6/6] tests: Remove memory leak checking infrastructure

Emil Velikov emil.l.velikov at gmail.com
Wed Aug 29 16:37:42 UTC 2018


On 29 August 2018 at 07:17, Daniel Stone <daniels at collabora.com> wrote:
> There are far better ways to detect memory leaks, such as either
> valgrind or ASan. Having Meson makes it really easy to use these tools
> in our tests, and we can do that in CI as well.
>
> Having these local wrappers actually completely broke ASan usage, so
> remove them in favour of using the more powerful options.
>
Fwiw adding valgrind to any build-system is a 2-5 line task ;-)
Sanitizers on the other hand (esp. on shared libraries) is a pain.

-Emil


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