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2008.12.19 02:26 "Re: 3.9.0 release, Was: tiffvers.h - TIFFLIB_RELEASE macro addition", by Frank Warmerdam
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Frank Warmerdam wrote: >> >> Is anyone aware of any other serious issues with the 3.9 branch? If not, >> I'd like to produce a 3.9.0 release candidate for testing. > > It would be nice if libtiff would run clean with 'valgrind'. While I am > not aware of any memory leaks, it seems that TIFF directories are > accessed/written which contain uninitialized data and this causes > 'valgrind' to complain about use of uninitialized data. The workaround > may be as simple as doing a 'memset' on directory structures immediately > after they are allocated. Bob, I tried running tiff2rgba and tiffcp on a file or two under valgrind and I didn't see any reported problems. Can you be more specific about the circumstances? Is this something you would like to address? I'm somewhat ambivalent about it. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent