Running Valgrind fails

Question

I'm trying to run valgrind in order to identify memory leaks in my program.

Unfortunately, running it fails as follows:

igor@WaylandGnome ~/dbhandler/Debug/dbhandler $ valgrind --leak-check=full dbhandler
==32622== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==32622== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==32622== Using Valgrind-3.18.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==32622== Command: dbhandler
==32622== 
vex amd64->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0x8F 0xEA 0x78 0x10 0xD0 0x8 0x4 0x0 0x0 0x89
vex amd64->IR:   REX=0 REX.W=0 REX.R=0 REX.X=0 REX.B=0
vex amd64->IR:   VEX=0 VEX.L=0 VEX.nVVVV=0x0 ESC=NONE
vex amd64->IR:   PFX.66=0 PFX.F2=0 PFX.F3=0
==32622== valgrind: Unrecognised instruction at address 0x40197cf.
==32622==    at 0x40197CF: get_common_indices.constprop.0 (in /lib64/ld-2.33.so)
==32622==    by 0x401ACB6: init_cpu_features.constprop.0 (in /lib64/ld-2.33.so)
==32622==    by 0x401BE1D: _dl_sysdep_start (in /lib64/ld-2.33.so)
==32622==    by 0x4001FDB: _dl_start (in /lib64/ld-2.33.so)
==32622==    by 0x4001057: ??? (in /lib64/ld-2.33.so)
==32622== Your program just tried to execute an instruction that Valgrind
==32622== did not recognise.  There are two possible reasons for this.
==32622== 1. Your program has a bug and erroneously jumped to a non-code
==32622==    location.  If you are running Memcheck and you just saw a
==32622==    warning about a bad jump, it's probably your program's fault.
==32622== 2. The instruction is legitimate but Valgrind doesn't handle it,
==32622==    i.e. it's Valgrind's fault.  If you think this is the case or
==32622==    you are not sure, please let us know and we'll try to fix it.
==32622== Either way, Valgrind will now raise a SIGILL signal which will
==32622== probably kill your program.
==32622== 
==32622== Process terminating with default action of signal 4 (SIGILL)
==32622==  Illegal opcode at address 0x40197CF
==32622==    at 0x40197CF: get_common_indices.constprop.0 (in /lib64/ld-2.33.so)
==32622==    by 0x401ACB6: init_cpu_features.constprop.0 (in /lib64/ld-2.33.so)
==32622==    by 0x401BE1D: _dl_sysdep_start (in /lib64/ld-2.33.so)
==32622==    by 0x4001FDB: _dl_start (in /lib64/ld-2.33.so)
==32622==    by 0x4001057: ??? (in /lib64/ld-2.33.so)
==32622== 
==32622== HEAP SUMMARY:
==32622==     in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==32622==   total heap usage: 0 allocs, 0 frees, 0 bytes allocated
==32622== 
==32622== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==32622== 
==32622== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s
==32622== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
Illegal instruction

Any idea what is happening?

I'm running Gentoo here and my program is built with C++11 standard.

Answer 1

This is valgrind bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381819

There is a patch attached to the bug but the patch is not in the latest valgrind release as it is reported as not being complete.