Re: valgrind

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> But it's less a lack of interest and more an unwillingness to ignore
>> the licensing issues.  `Modern' GCC is licensed under the GPLv3.
> try clang, which usually has newer/better sanitizers.

clang is - or at least was last I checked - under the impression that
nested functions are little-used and thus are not worth supporting.

That may be - presumably is; the clang people are not stupid - correct
as applied to the C ecosystem at large.  It definitely is not correct
as applied to my code.  Unless/until they change their collective mind
and implement nested functions, clang is a nonstarter for me.

Also, at work, I had occasion to do a clang build-from-source.  The
resulting executables were multiple _giga_bytes:

[Pavilion] 14> ls -l bin/clang-10
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     2535346040 Aug 10  2020 bin/clang-10

That too is a showstopper for me.  They're turned off at the moment,
but I have two machines, one in live use when I'm working on what I set
it up for and the other a live use desktop until COVID-19 put paid to
my working outside my home, for which that one file would take up more
than half the machine's total available disk space.

I've been making very-spare-time progress on building my own compiler
on and off for some years now; perhaps I'll eventually get somewhere.
(It's something I want to do regardless; there are some directions I'd
like to take the language to see what results....)

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