From: Kevin Day <thekevinday@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 06:40:06 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: Update: Add additional debugging documentation notes.
X-Git-Tag: 0.5.8~16
X-Git-Url: https://git.kevux.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=58b2a48b3feafc956874e023785b421c920229f5;p=fll

Update: Add additional debugging documentation notes.
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diff --git a/documents/debugging.txt b/documents/debugging.txt
index dd6d5d4..182c985 100644
--- a/documents/debugging.txt
+++ b/documents/debugging.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ Valgrind:
   The "valkyrie" program does not support massif at the time of this writing but it eventually may.
   The "valkyrie" program does support the default valgrind tool and the helgrind tools.
 
+  When working with valgrind's massif tool, several libc functions (or other functions external to this project) may get in the way of the analysis.
+  These functions should be disabled.
+  Example valgrind massif execution disabling some common GLibc functions:
+    valgrind --tool=massif --ignore-fn=_IO_file_doallocate --ignore-fn=ftw_startup --ignore-fn=__alloc_dir fake clean build
+
 GCC's -fanalyzer (and CLang's equivalent):
   The code analyzer provided by GCC (and also CLang, through similar means) attempts to determine insecure or otherwise bad coding practices.