["J.Smith" <lbalbalba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Uwe Girlich" <Uwe.Girlich@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ethereal Development List" <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] crash on reading tracefile ( NFS ? )

>
> We should consider "valgrinding" ethereal.
>
> Bye, Uwe
>

Which to me, being one of the people who is experiencing the results of this
issue, sounds like a perfectly good idea ;).

Although I'm just a regular end-user of the application here - and an
occasional bug reporter - to me, the employment of any methods that will
improve the general quality of the code sounds worthwhile to consider. As an
end-user/bug-reporter/system-administrator I of course have no way to tell
if 'valgrind' (http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj) would be a good tool for
this job, or if some other means like using additional gcc compiler warnings
( CFLAGS="-Wall -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -W -ansi" ) would be
considered sufficient or more appropriate here.

... But then again, maybe I should just 'butt out', leave the developing to
the developers, and just enjoy a terrific product  ...
;)

Anyways, just my 2$.




Sincerely,

J.Smith