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r88116 | tilghman | 2007-11-01 12:17:56 -0500 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

Add some notes on using valgrind

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+If you're having certain types of crashes, such as those associated with
+memory corruption, a bug marshal may ask you to run Asterisk under valgrind.
+You should follow these steps, to give the bug marshal the maximum amount
+of information about the crash.
+
+1.  Run 'make menuselect' and in the Compiler Options, enable MALLOC_DEBUG
+       and DONT_OPTIMIZE.  A bug marshal may also ask you to enable additional
+       compiler flags, such as DEBUG_THREADS, depending upon the nature of the
+       issue.
+
+2.  Rebuild and install Asterisk.
+
+3.  Run Asterisk as follows:
+       valgrind --log-file-exact=valgrind.txt asterisk -vvvvcg 2>malloc_debug.txt
+
+4.  Reproduce the issue.  Following the manifestation of the issue (or when
+       the process crashes), upload the two files, valgrind.txt and
+       malloc_debug.txt to the issue tracker.
+