diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index d57dfbbbd46a3e1dffc054bd496b938b2acb90b6..23b045a526265968ce3f5264a512f493b44179bc 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -906,3 +906,4 @@ testfont binary
 /src/version.c foreign_ident
 /src/version.h foreign_ident
 /tools/pike.el foreign_ident
+/tools/pike_verify.supp foreign_ident
diff --git a/tools/pike_verify.supp b/tools/pike_verify.supp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d0c1d5754a29dfc5ff9a204671e3641427d4949a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/pike_verify.supp
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+#
+# $Id: pike_verify.supp,v 1.1 2003/10/16 01:12:21 nilsson Exp $
+# Suppresion for valgrind errors outside of Pike triggered
+# by the Pike test suite.
+#
+
+{
+   libgdbm/gdbm_open
+   Memcheck:Param
+   write(buf)
+   fun:__GI___libc_write
+   fun:gdbm_open
+   fun:gdbmmod_create
+   fun:low_mega_apply
+}
+
+{
+   libgdbm/gdbm_store
+   Memcheck:Param
+   write(buf)
+   fun:__GI___libc_write
+   fun:_gdbm_write_bucket
+   fun:_gdbm_end_update
+   fun:gdbm_store
+}
+
+{
+   libgdbm/gdbm_reorganize
+   Memcheck:Param
+   write(buf)
+   fun:__GI___libc_write
+   fun:gdbm_open
+   fun:gdbm_reorganize
+   fun:gdbmmod_reorganize
+}