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From:
Reini Urban
Date:
July 8, 2012 09:14
Subject:
Re: [perl #30043] Purify located memory errors
Message ID:
CAHiT=DHEHPvD6v-xaXT=eSdLKtdqUWeLaut-mGm7qckGbL3+og@mail.gmail.com
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Father Chrysostomos via RT
<perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:
> On Thu Jul 05 13:07:10 2012, doy wrote:
>> The new slab allocator for ops should have fixed most of the cases of
>> failed evals leaking, right?
>
> I hope so. :-)
>
>> Are there any other issues here that we
>> know of? Has anyone tried to build perl with Purify recently?
>
> I don’t know.

I am constantly testing with AddressSanitzer which detects more errors
than Purify or valgrind. All of the remaining core issues have been
fixed recently, just some CPAN modules are still broken.
-- 
Reini Urban
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