Gregoire Favre wrote:
That's great, is there a "tutorial" for using valgrind ?
See here:
http://www.cprogramming.com/debugging/valgrind.html http://valgrind.org/
for the Debian vdr packages in my repository (sorry, german only) : http://www.e-tobi.net/blog/articles/2006/04/30/speicherlecks-im-vdr-finden
Debugging a vdr plugin with valgrind is a little bit tricky, because the symbols get lost, when VDR unloads the plugins. That's why I've built a small patch for the Debian vdr debug package. With this patch, you can force VDR to keep the plugin libs loaded with the options -k or --keep-plugins.
I've attached the patch to this mail.
Don't forget to compile VDR and the plugins with debugging informaton ( -g ) and without optimization (-O0) - and don't strip the symbols from the binary!
bye,
Tobias