[petsc-users] Valgrind and uninitialized values

Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Feb 3 08:53:10 CST 2012


Its easier to install a seprate petsc with --download-mpich - for
valgrind purposes..

Satish

On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Max Rudolph wrote:

> No, I am using the version of Petsc supplied on the lonestar machine, which was compiled with their MPI build. I will look into making a suppressions file. Thanks for your help.
> 
> Max
> 
> > >
> >  I am trying to track down a memory corruption bug using valgrind, but I am
> > >
> >  having to wade through lots and lots of error messages similar to this one,
> > >
> >  which I believe are either spurious or related to some problem in Petsc and
> > >
> >  not in my code (please correct me if I'm wrong!)
> > >
> > 
> > Are you using ---download-mpich? It should be valgrind clean. These are a
> > pain, but you can make a supressions
> > file as well.
> > 
> >    Matt
> > 
> 
> 



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