32-bit Valgrind Notes

1. When running ./configure to build valgrind, look for this line:

    checking for 32 bit build support... yes

You can also use --enable-only64bit or --enable-only32bit if you only care about a specific platform.

2. Adding "-d" to valgrind will spew out a bunch of debug information, including which tool it's launching. Something like this:

--4603:1:launcher no client specified, defaulting platform to 'amd64-linux'
--4603:1:launcher launching /usr/local/lib/valgrind/memcheck-amd64-linux

"valgrind --verbose" can also be useful, of course.

3. Archive of valgrind users mailing list is here:

http://valgrind.10908.n7.nabble.com/Valgrind-Users-f33662i35.html

4. If you see this error when valgrind'ing a 32-bit application:

valgrind:  Fatal error at startup: a function redirection
valgrind:  which is mandatory for this platform-tool combination
valgrind:  cannot be set up.  Details of the redirection are:
valgrind:
valgrind:  A must-be-redirected function
valgrind:  whose name matches the pattern:      strlen
valgrind:  in an object with soname matching:   ld-linux.so.2
valgrind:  was not found whilst processing
valgrind:  symbols from the object with soname: ld-linux.so.2
valgrind:
valgrind:  Possible fixes: (1, short term): install glibc's debuginfo
valgrind:  package on this machine.  (2, longer term): ask the packagers
valgrind:  for your Linux distribution to please in future ship a non-
valgrind:  stripped ld.so (or whatever the dynamic linker .so is called)
valgrind:  that exports the above-named function using the standard
valgrind:  calling conventions for this platform.  The package you need
valgrind:  to install for fix (1) is called
valgrind:
valgrind:    On Debian, Ubuntu:                 libc6-dbg
valgrind:    On SuSE, openSuSE, Fedora, RHEL:   glibc-debuginfo
valgrind:
valgrind:  Cannot continue -- exiting now.  Sorry.

You most likely need the 32-bit libc-dbg package. On Debian based systems this should fix it:

sudo apt-get install libc6-dbg:i386