[IGSTK-Developers] Dynamic Analysis

[David Gobbi]

The problem with the dashboard's dynamic analysis reporting has been 
fixed, thanks to Andy and Jim Miller over at GE Global Research.  I was 
impressed, I reported the problem on the Dart mailing list and the fix 
was done within five days.

The summaries for today's dashboard can be found here:
http://public.kitware.com/IGSTK/Sites/beck.atamai/Linux-c++-3.2/20050804-0430-Nightly/DynamicAnalysis.html
http://public.kitware.com/IGSTK/Sites/beck.atamai/Sandbox-Linux-c++-3.2/20050804-0430-Nightly/DynamicAnalysis.html

David Gobbi wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I looked into the dynamic analyis report on the dashboard and fixed a 
> couple of the reported memory problems, but my own feeling is that the 
> code is ready to be tagged and we can fix the remaining memory 
> problems over the coming weeks.
>
> For anyone unfamiliar with dynamic analysis, it can mean many things 
> but in the context of the dashboard it means testing for memory leaks, 
> making sure that variables and arrays are always initialized before 
> they are used, plus a dozen other memory-related tests of varying 
> criticality.
>
> Note that the dashboard summarizes the dynamic analysis results 
> incorrectly, so you have to follow the links for the individual tests 
> and read though valgrind's diagnostic output, which looks like Greek, 
> to get any useful information.  Maybe Dart requires an older version 
> of valgrind?   Also, the UNC dynamic analysis reports appear to miss 
> some of the tests.
>
> - David