Sneaky valgrind trick to detect stack memory issues.

After something is popped from a stack, we overwrite the memory
with uninitialised data (if JQ_DEBUG is on). This means that
valgrind reports use-after-pop as an uninitialised memory error.
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Stephen Dolan committed 2012-12-24 17:11:18 +00:00
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#include <stddef.h>
#if JQ_DEBUG
extern volatile char jv_mem_uninitialised;
#endif
static void jv_mem_invalidate(void* mem, size_t n) {
#if JQ_DEBUG
char* m = mem;
while (n--) *m++ ^= jv_mem_uninitialised ^ jv_mem_uninitialised;
#endif
}
void* jv_mem_alloc(size_t);
void jv_mem_free(void*);
__attribute__((warn_unused_result)) void* jv_mem_realloc(void*, size_t);