[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#474051: libhdf5-serial-dev: libhdf5 appears to write uninitialized memory to file

[Jason Kraftcheck]

Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 
> I cannot reproduce the problem above with libhdf5-serial-1.6.6, version
> 1.6.6-4 (currently in unstable).  Using the C program that you provided, I
> get the following output from valgrind:
> 
> ==11598== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 8 from 1)
> ==11598== malloc/free: in use at exit: 1,312 bytes in 2 blocks.
> ==11598== malloc/free: 1,014 allocs, 1,012 frees, 494,404 bytes allocated.
> ==11598== For counts of detected errors, rerun with: -v
> ==11598== searching for pointers to 2 not-freed blocks.
> ==11598== checked 142,048 bytes.
> ==11598==
> ==11598== LEAK SUMMARY:
> ==11598==    definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
> ==11598==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
> ==11598==    still reachable: 1,312 bytes in 2 blocks.
> ==11598==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
> 
> Could you please confirm this?
> 

I cannot reproduce them problem with 1.6.6 (not debian package.)  I have
seen similar errors with 1.6.6 (and 1.8.0) with real applications.  If I
find a simple way to reproduce the problem, I will submit a new bug report
against 1.6.6.