valgrind not working on Raspbian Buster

[HankB]

hbarta@prelude:~ $ cat /etc/issue
Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 \n \l

hbarta@prelude:~ $ dpkg -l valgrind
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-==============-============-=============================================================
ii valgrind 1:3.7.0-6+rpi6 armhf instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools
hbarta@prelude:~ $

In the simplest of programs (such as hello world in C or C++ valgrind installed from the Raspbian repo reports lots of errors. If the current version is downloaded from https://www.valgrind.org/downloads/current.html#current and built from current sources (3.16.0), It builds cleanly and works without reporting extraneous errors.

Please see post https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=275485&e=1&view=unread#unread for further information.

[carlonluca]

I confirm I had the same problem. I had to use 3.15.0 to get useful results.

[JamesH65]

This is the wrong repo for this report. It's a Raspbian issue so need to go here

https://bugs.launchpad.net/raspbian/

[HankB]

Many thanks for pointing me to the correct repo to report this. For anyone following, I added my comments to https://bugs.launchpad.net/raspbian/+bug/1743293?comments=all which I believe to be the same issue.