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Goober5000andClaude Opus 5 2addd90aed ci: run the unit tests against SDL's dummy video driver (#7779)
The Linux Debug legs fail memcheck on six "definitely lost" contexts
(480 bytes in 12 blocks), all allocated under the temporary
SDL_InitSubSystem(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) in resolution_default(). SDL probes its
real video backends, dlopens libX11, and keeps a few small blocks across
the matching SDL_QuitSubSystem().

These are the same six contexts #7657 suppressed via fun:X11_CreateDevice.
That suppression stopped matching when #7774 bumped the prebuilt libs:
62c89ef6 shipped libSDL3.so.0.2.14 with a full .symtab (433 distinct X11_*
symbols), b57636e0 ships a stripped libSDL3.so.0.4.14 (none). X11_CreateDevice
is a static function, so valgrind can no longer resolve it and every libSDL3
frame prints as ???. Every PR branch based on post-bump master fails this leg.

Rather than rewrite the suppression around object wildcards, stop allocating
the memory in the first place. The unit tests never open a window and the
runners are headless, so pin SDL_VIDEODRIVER=dummy: SDL skips backend probing
entirely, libX11 is never loaded, and the leaks do not happen. It also makes
the tests behave identically whether or not the runner has a display. No test
depends on the real desktop mode; the only resolution test sets an explicit
override.

The os_init suppression stays. That leak is from SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_EVENTS)
and SDL_hid_init(), not from video, so the dummy driver does not affect it.
The X11_CreateDevice block also stays, as a backstop for running memcheck by
hand, now with a comment recording why it is inert in CI.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-12 03:09:54 +00:00
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