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Valgrind 3.27 RC1 is out

An RC1 tarball for 3.27.0 is now available at
https://sourceware.org/pub/valgrind/valgrind-3.27.0.RC1.tar.bz2
(md5sum = bd95111c1a9f81f136c5e4e2c62b493e)
(sha1sum = 0eefb3a7d86a3bd0154480db3d2173bb8bd6d7c1)
https://sourceware.org/pub/valgrind/valgrind-3.27.0.RC1.tar.bz2.asc
Public keys can be found at https://www.klomp.org/mark/gnupg-pub.txt

Please give it a try in configurations that are important for you and
report any problems you have, either on the developer/user mailing list, or
(preferably) via our bug tracker at
https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=valgrind

An RC2 should be available Fri Apr 17
The final 3.27.0 release is scheduled for Mon Apr 20.

#valgrind

@david_chisnall @ZachWeinersmith

"The bug I found a little while ago in some MISRA C code was of that form: their analyser had found it, someone had determined it was not a bug, and they were wrong."

It's not just static analysis. Valgrind memcheck has a low false positive rate. For some reason many people seem to believe that if their program does not crash every time on their machine then it must be infallibly and absolutely correct. They might then report a "bug" or seek confirmation of the "false positive" that they have found.