(offtopic: Purify and Valgrind) Re: [Coin-discuss] Purify UMR CoinFactorization::pivotOneOtherRow

[Michael Hennebry]

On Wed, 24 May 2006, Brian Borchers wrote:

> As an example of the kind of thing I'm talking about, suppose that I have
>
> static int foo;
>
> and then somewhere in my code I use foo in an expression without having
> stored anything in the variable.  Valgrind can detect this, but the
> version of Purify that I used some years ago couldn't.

Neither should flag it.
foo should be initialized to 0.

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