Rebuild your application using the all-valgrind target like this:
make -B clean all-valgrind
That way native will tell Valgrind about RIOT's stacks and prevent
Valgrind from reporting lots of false positives.
The debug information flag -g is not strictly necessary, but passing
it allows Valgrind to tell you precisely which code triggered the error.
To run your application run:
make term-valgrind
All this does is run your application under Valgrind. Now Valgrind will print some information whenever it detects an invalid memory access.
In order to debug the program when this occurs you can use the targets debug-valgrind-server and debug-valgrind. Therefore, you need to open two terminals and run:
make debug-valgrind-server
in the first one and run:
make debug-valgrind
in the seconde one. This starts per default gdb attached to valgrinds gdb server (vgdb).
If you compile RIOT for the native cpu and include the netdev_tap
module, you need to specify a network interface like this:
make term PORT=tap0
Please note: in case you're using RIOT's default network stack, the GNRC
stack, you may also use netdev_default module and also add
auto_init_gnrc_netif in order to automatically initialize the interface.
There is a shellscript in RIOT/dist/tools/tapsetup called tapsetup which you
can use to create a network of tap interfaces.
Usage: To create a bridge and two (or count at your option) tap interfaces:
sudo ../../dist/tools/tapsetup/tapsetup [-c [<count>]]
To delete the bridge and all tap interfaces:
sudo ../../dist/tools/tapsetup/tapsetup -d
Please note: If you want to communicate between RIOT and your host
operating system, you must not use the tapsetup script, but create and
activate the tap interface manually. On Linux you can do so, by calling
sudo ip tuntap add tap0 mode tap user ${USER}
sudo ip link set tap0 up
You can daemonize a riot process. This is useful for larger networks. Valgrind will fork along with the riot process and dump its output in the terminal.
Usage:
./bin/native/default.elf -d
Compile with
CFLAGS=-DNATIVE_AUTO_EXIT make
to exit the riot core after the last thread has exited.