From e04e1b50025f5fa9c26abd946190dce8f797d08f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rainer Gerhards Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:33:38 +0200 Subject: enhanced test environment (including testbench) support for enhancing probability of memory addressing failure by using non-NULL default value for malloced memory (optional, only if requested by configure option). This helps to track down some otherwise undetected issues within the testbench and is expected to be very useful in the future. --- configure.ac | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) (limited to 'configure.ac') diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 376855b3..c381f28b 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -394,6 +394,21 @@ if test "$enable_valgrind" = "yes"; then fi +# memcheck +AC_ARG_ENABLE(memcheck, + [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-memcheck],[Enable extended memory check support @<:@default=no@:>@])], + [case "${enableval}" in + yes) enable_memcheck="yes" ;; + no) enable_memcheck="no" ;; + *) AC_MSG_ERROR(bad value ${enableval} for --enable-memcheck) ;; + esac], + [enable_memcheck="no"] +) +if test "$enable_memcheck" = "yes"; then + AC_DEFINE(MEMCHECK, 1, [Defined if memcheck support settings are to be enabled (e.g. prevents dlclose()).]) +fi + + # compile diagnostic tools (small helpers usually not needed) AC_ARG_ENABLE(diagtools, [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-diagtools],[Enable diagnostic tools @<:@default=no@:>@])], @@ -927,5 +942,6 @@ echo " Testbench enabled: $enable_testbench" echo " Debug mode enabled: $enable_debug" echo " Runtime Instrumentation enabled: $enable_rtinst" echo " Diagnostic tools enabled: $enable_diagtools" +echo " Enhanced memory checking enabled: $enable_memcheck" echo " Valgrind support settings enabled: $enable_valgrind" echo -- cgit