Made the Valgrind abort/crash message clearer about the fact that it can be
caused by heap corruption by the client. Also clarified the FAQ about this.
Also updated the FAQ about decoding failures a little.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@9556 a5019735-40e9-0310-863c-91ae7b9d1cf9
diff --git a/coregrind/m_libcassert.c b/coregrind/m_libcassert.c
index e44953c..1d7e5a7 100644
--- a/coregrind/m_libcassert.c
+++ b/coregrind/m_libcassert.c
@@ -152,14 +152,19 @@
VG_(pp_StackTrace) (ips, BACKTRACE_DEPTH);
VG_(show_sched_status)();
- VG_(printf)("\n");
- VG_(printf)("Note: see also the FAQ.txt in the source distribution.\n");
- VG_(printf)("It contains workarounds to several common problems.\n");
- VG_(printf)("\n");
- VG_(printf)("If that doesn't help, please report this bug to: %s\n\n",
- report);
- VG_(printf)("In the bug report, send all the above text, the valgrind\n");
- VG_(printf)("version, and what Linux distro you are using. Thanks.\n\n");
+ VG_(printf)(
+ "\n"
+ "Note: see also the FAQ in the source distribution.\n"
+ "It contains workarounds to several common problems.\n"
+ "In particular, if Valgrind aborted or crashed after\n"
+ "identifying problems in your program, there's a good chance\n"
+ "that fixing those problems will prevent Valgrind aborting or\n"
+ "crashing, especially if it happened in m_mallocfree.c.\n"
+ "\n"
+ "If that doesn't help, please report this bug to: %s\n\n"
+ "In the bug report, send all the above text, the valgrind\n"
+ "version, and what OS and version you are using. Thanks.\n\n",
+ report);
VG_(exit)(1);
}