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wmkhoo / taintgrind

A taint-tracking plugin for the Valgrind memory checking tool
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Is the name on purpose? #38

Closed ariccio closed 4 years ago

ariccio commented 4 years ago

...am I the only one? We googled it, and the image results are not something I will link 😂

wmkhoo commented 4 years ago

Hi,

Pardon my ignorance, but I did not know of that association until you brought it up. The "grind" suffix is to indicate the tool is associated with valgrind. Other valgrind tools that have the "grind" suffix, e.g. callgrind, cachegrind, helgrind etc.. The "taint" prefix is to indicate it does taint analysis.

Maybe the other valgrind tools do not suffer the same fate, but that's the truth behind the origin of the name.

ariccio commented 4 years ago

That's hilarious, but fantastic.