A suppression file is a file that tells Valgrind to ignore certain errors or leaks that are not caused by your program but by some external library or system call. This can help you focus on the errors that are relevant to your code and avoid false positives.
Valgrind reads the leaks from the readline library itself and finding leaks in your project (Ex: So long, Minishell) difficult. See the first picture which creates huge line of leaks due to macos. At times it wastes time to find the actual one. Then after using the suppression with the command above you will see the output with your actual leaks in your function.
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- Clone the repo
- Copy the
ignore_readline.suppfile to your Project folder - run
valgrind --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=all --track-origins=yes --suppressions=ignore_readline.supp -s ./program_name - Check the output
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