How do I set up Valgrind to search through all command line option permutations?-CodePudding

I would like to add Valgrind to my automated test suite, but as I understand it, Valgrind only tests the target binary according to the options that I supply for said binary. For instance, if I run:

valgrind --leak-check=yes ./target_bin -option1 option_arg

Valgrind will catch memory leaks in functions called when option1 is invoked; but if I run the same command with option2 instead of option1, different functions are invoked and Valgrind will analyze those instead.

If I am going to add Valgrind to an automated test suite, do I need to write a bash script with every single permutation of my program's options, such as:

valgrind --leak-check=yes ./target_bin -option1 option_arg
valgrind --leak-check=yes ./target_bin -option2 option_arg
valgrind --leak-check=yes ./target_bin -option3 option_arg -option4

Or am I missing something super obvious in the Valgrind documentation? If the above solution is the correct answer, are there any ways of tracking these kinds of permutations? Because I can see this script getting very large very quickly

CodePudding user response：

Valgrind does not support this functionality because it's much easier to implement in shell scripts. You could do something like

for args in \
    '-option1 option_arg' \
    '-option2 option_arg' \
    '-option3 option_arg -option4'; do
  valgrind --leak-check=yes ./target_bin $args
done