[petsc-users] Regarding Valgrind

Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov
Tue May 5 08:56:50 CDT 2020


I think its best to get access to a linux box for valgrind - either a remote box - or a VM on your laptop. [or via docker?]

Satish

On Tue, 5 May 2020, MUKKUND SUNJII wrote:

> Greetings, 
> 
> I have been working on modifying ex11.c by adding source terms to the existing model. 
> 
> In the process, I had introduced some memory corruption errors. The modifications are fairly large, hence it is difficult to single out the problem. 
> 
> In the FAQ page, I saw that we can use the flag -malloc_debug and/or CHKMEMQ statements. However, they don’t seem to help my case. 
> 
> At this point of time, Valgrind is not supported by MAC OS X as I have the newer version of the OS. Any suggestions on how to figure out the source of the problem?
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Mukkund 


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