From: Frédéric Gobry Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 06:56:07 +0000 (+0000) Subject: updated the info about the default.supp file. X-Git-Tag: svn/VALGRIND_1_0_3~400 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=29f83bd240a0a8924bbbaa23521a9fa374b2f232;p=thirdparty%2Fvalgrind.git updated the info about the default.supp file. git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@46 --- diff --git a/README b/README index d683e2de17..1e7534ceb4 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -82,13 +82,16 @@ Once step 5 is successful, you can now use valgrind. Documentation is in docs/manual.html. The following auxiliary steps may enhance your valgrinding experience, though. -3. Add enough suppressions to the suppression file for your kernel - (linux24.supp for instance) so that +6. Create a file containing enough suppressions so that ./valgrind xedit runs without generating any errors. This means you've more or less suppressed all the scummy errors from the X11 base libraries and from glibc, which will make it easier to spot - genuine errors in your own code. + genuine errors in your own code. The default.supp file + should contains a good starting point. Do *not* edit this file + however, as it will be overwritten at the next installation of + valgrind. + Julian Seward (jseward@acm.org) 15 Feb 2002