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Release 3.3.1 (4 June 2008) |
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3.3.1 fixes a bunch of bugs in 3.3.0, adds support for glibc-2.8 based |
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systems (openSUSE 11, Fedora Core 9), improves the existing glibc-2.7 |
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support, and adds support for the SSSE3 (Core 2) instruction set. |
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3.3.1 will likely be the last release that supports some very old |
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systems. In particular, the next major release, 3.4.0, will drop |
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support for the old LinuxThreads threading library, and for gcc |
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versions prior to 3.0. |
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The fixed bugs are as follows. Note that "n-i-bz" stands for "not in |
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bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us but never got a |
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bugzilla entry. We encourage you to file bugs in bugzilla |
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(http://bugs.kde.org/enter_valgrind_bug.cgi) rather than mailing the |
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developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that are not entered |
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into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored. |
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n-i-bz Massif segfaults at exit |
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n-i-bz Memcheck asserts on Altivec code |
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n-i-bz fix sizeof bug in Helgrind |
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n-i-bz check fd on sys_llseek |
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n-i-bz update syscall lists to kernel 2.6.23.1 |
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n-i-bz support sys_sync_file_range |
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n-i-bz handle sys_sysinfo, sys_getresuid, sys_getresgid on ppc64-linux |
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n-i-bz intercept memcpy in 64-bit ld.so's |
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n-i-bz Fix wrappers for sys_{futimesat,utimensat} |
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n-i-bz Minor false-error avoidance fixes for Memcheck |
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n-i-bz libmpiwrap.c: add a wrapper for MPI_Waitany |
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n-i-bz helgrind support for glibc-2.8 |
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n-i-bz partial fix for mc_leakcheck.c:698 assert: |
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'lc_shadows[i]->data + lc_shadows[i] ... |
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n-i-bz Massif/Cachegrind output corruption when programs fork |
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n-i-bz register allocator fix: handle spill stores correctly |
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n-i-bz add support for PA6T PowerPC CPUs |
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126389 vex x86->IR: 0xF 0xAE (FXRSTOR) |
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158525 ==126389 |
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152818 vex x86->IR: 0xF3 0xAC (repz lodsb) |
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153196 vex x86->IR: 0xF2 0xA6 (repnz cmpsb) |
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155011 vex x86->IR: 0xCF (iret) |
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155091 Warning [...] unhandled DW_OP_ opcode 0x23 |
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156960 ==155901 |
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155528 support Core2/SSSE3 insns on x86/amd64 |
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155929 ms_print fails on massif outputs containing long lines |
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157665 valgrind fails on shmdt(0) after shmat to 0 |
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157748 support x86 PUSHFW/POPFW |
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158212 helgrind: handle pthread_rwlock_try{rd,wr}lock. |
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158425 sys_poll incorrectly emulated when RES==0 |
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158744 vex amd64->IR: 0xF0 0x41 0xF 0xC0 (xaddb) |
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160907 Support for a couple of recent Linux syscalls |
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161285 Patch -- support for eventfd() syscall |
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161378 illegal opcode in debug libm (FUCOMPP) |
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160136 ==161378 |
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161487 number of suppressions files is limited to 10 |
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162386 ms_print typo in milliseconds time unit for massif |
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161036 exp-drd: client allocated memory was never freed |
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162663 signalfd_wrapper fails on 64bit linux |
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(3.3.1.RC1: 2 June 2008, vex r1854, valgrind r8169). |
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(3.3.1: 4 June 2008, vex r1854, valgrind r8180). |
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Release 3.3.0 (7 December 2007) |
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3.3.0 is a feature release with many significant improvements and the |
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usual collection of bug fixes. This release supports X86/Linux, |
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AMD64/Linux, PPC32/Linux and PPC64/Linux. Support for recent distros |
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(using gcc 4.3, glibc 2.6 and 2.7) has been added. |
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The main excitement in 3.3.0 is new and improved tools. Helgrind |
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works again, Massif has been completely overhauled and much improved, |
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Cachegrind now does branch-misprediction profiling, and a new category |
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of experimental tools has been created, containing two new tools: |
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Omega and DRD. There are many other smaller improvements. In detail: |
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- Helgrind has been completely overhauled and works for the first time |
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since Valgrind 2.2.0. Supported functionality is: detection of |
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misuses of the POSIX PThreads API, detection of potential deadlocks |
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resulting from cyclic lock dependencies, and detection of data |
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races. Compared to the 2.2.0 Helgrind, the race detection algorithm |
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has some significant improvements aimed at reducing the false error |
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rate. Handling of various kinds of corner cases has been improved. |
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Efforts have been made to make the error messages easier to |
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understand. Extensive documentation is provided. |
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- Massif has been completely overhauled. Instead of measuring |
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space-time usage -- which wasn't always useful and many people found |
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confusing -- it now measures space usage at various points in the |
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execution, including the point of peak memory allocation. Its |
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output format has also changed: instead of producing PostScript |
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graphs and HTML text, it produces a single text output (via the new |
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'ms_print' script) that contains both a graph and the old textual |
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information, but in a more compact and readable form. Finally, the |
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new version should be more reliable than the old one, as it has been |
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tested more thoroughly. |
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- Cachegrind has been extended to do branch-misprediction profiling. |
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Both conditional and indirect branches are profiled. The default |
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behaviour of Cachegrind is unchanged. To use the new functionality, |
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give the option --branch-sim=yes. |
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- A new category of "experimental tools" has been created. Such tools |
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may not work as well as the standard tools, but are included because |
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some people will find them useful, and because exposure to a wider |
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user group provides tool authors with more end-user feedback. These |
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tools have a "exp-" prefix attached to their names to indicate their |
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experimental nature. Currently there are two experimental tools: |
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* exp-Omega: an instantaneous leak detector. See |
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exp-omega/docs/omega_introduction.txt. |
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* exp-DRD: a data race detector based on the happens-before |
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relation. See exp-drd/docs/README.txt. |
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- Scalability improvements for very large programs, particularly those |
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which have a million or more malloc'd blocks in use at once. These |
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improvements mostly affect Memcheck. Memcheck is also up to 10% |
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faster for all programs, with x86-linux seeing the largest |
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improvement. |
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- Works well on the latest Linux distros. Has been tested on Fedora |
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Core 8 (x86, amd64, ppc32, ppc64) and openSUSE 10.3. glibc 2.6 and |
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2.7 are supported. gcc-4.3 (in its current pre-release state) is |
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supported. At the same time, 3.3.0 retains support for older |
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distros. |
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- The documentation has been modestly reorganised with the aim of |
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making it easier to find information on common-usage scenarios. |
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Some advanced material has been moved into a new chapter in the main |
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manual, so as to unclutter the main flow, and other tidying up has |
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been done. |
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- There is experimental support for AIX 5.3, both 32-bit and 64-bit |
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processes. You need to be running a 64-bit kernel to use Valgrind |
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on a 64-bit executable. |
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- There have been some changes to command line options, which may |
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affect you: |
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* --log-file-exactly and |
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--log-file-qualifier options have been removed. |
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To make up for this --log-file option has been made more powerful. |
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It now accepts a %p format specifier, which is replaced with the |
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process ID, and a %q{FOO} format specifier, which is replaced with |
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the contents of the environment variable FOO. |
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* --child-silent-after-fork=yes|no [no] |
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Causes Valgrind to not show any debugging or logging output for |
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the child process resulting from a fork() call. This can make the |
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output less confusing (although more misleading) when dealing with |
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processes that create children. |
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* --cachegrind-out-file, --callgrind-out-file and --massif-out-file |
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These control the names of the output files produced by |
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Cachegrind, Callgrind and Massif. They accept the same %p and %q |
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format specifiers that --log-file accepts. --callgrind-out-file |
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replaces Callgrind's old --base option. |
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* Cachegrind's 'cg_annotate' script no longer uses the --<pid> |
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option to specify the output file. Instead, the first non-option |
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argument is taken to be the name of the output file, and any |
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subsequent non-option arguments are taken to be the names of |
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source files to be annotated. |
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* Cachegrind and Callgrind now use directory names where possible in |
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their output files. This means that the -I option to |
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'cg_annotate' and 'callgrind_annotate' should not be needed in |
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most cases. It also means they can correctly handle the case |
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where two source files in different directories have the same |
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name. |
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- Memcheck offers a new suppression kind: "Jump". This is for |
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suppressing jump-to-invalid-address errors. Previously you had to |
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use an "Addr1" suppression, which didn't make much sense. |
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- Memcheck has new flags --malloc-fill=<hexnum> and |
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--free-fill=<hexnum> which free malloc'd / free'd areas with the |
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specified byte. This can help shake out obscure memory corruption |
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problems. The definedness and addressability of these areas is |
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unchanged -- only the contents are affected. |
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- The behaviour of Memcheck's client requests VALGRIND_GET_VBITS and |
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VALGRIND_SET_VBITS have changed slightly. They no longer issue |
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addressability errors -- if either array is partially unaddressable, |
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they just return 3 (as before). Also, SET_VBITS doesn't report |
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definedness errors if any of the V bits are undefined. |
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- The following Memcheck client requests have been removed: |
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VALGRIND_MAKE_NOACCESS |
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VALGRIND_MAKE_WRITABLE |
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VALGRIND_MAKE_READABLE |
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VALGRIND_CHECK_WRITABLE |
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VALGRIND_CHECK_READABLE |
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VALGRIND_CHECK_DEFINED |
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They were deprecated in 3.2.0, when equivalent but better-named client |
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requests were added. See the 3.2.0 release notes for more details. |
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- The behaviour of the tool Lackey has changed slightly. First, the output |
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from --trace-mem has been made more compact, to reduce the size of the |
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traces. Second, a new option --trace-superblocks has been added, which |
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shows the addresses of superblocks (code blocks) as they are executed. |
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- The following bugs have been fixed. Note that "n-i-bz" stands for |
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"not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us but |
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never got a bugzilla entry. We encourage you to file bugs in |
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bugzilla (http://bugs.kde.org/enter_valgrind_bug.cgi) rather than |
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mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly. |
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n-i-bz x86_linux_REDIR_FOR_index() broken |
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n-i-bz guest-amd64/toIR.c:2512 (dis_op2_E_G): Assertion `0' failed. |
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n-i-bz Support x86 INT insn (INT (0xCD) 0x40 - 0x43) |
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n-i-bz Add sys_utimensat system call for Linux x86 platform |
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79844 Helgrind complains about race condition which does not exist |
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82871 Massif output function names too short |
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89061 Massif: ms_main.c:485 (get_XCon): Assertion `xpt->max_chi...' |
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92615 Write output from Massif at crash |
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95483 massif feature request: include peak allocation in report |
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112163 MASSIF crashed with signal 7 (SIGBUS) after running 2 days |
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119404 problems running setuid executables (partial fix) |
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121629 add instruction-counting mode for timing |
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127371 java vm giving unhandled instruction bytes: 0x26 0x2E 0x64 0x65 |
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129937 ==150380 |
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129576 Massif loses track of memory, incorrect graphs |
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132132 massif --format=html output does not do html entity escaping |
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132950 Heap alloc/usage summary |
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133962 unhandled instruction bytes: 0xF2 0x4C 0xF 0x10 |
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134990 use -fno-stack-protector if possible |
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136382 ==134990 |
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137396 I would really like helgrind to work again... |
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137714 x86/amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0xF7 0xC6 (maskmovq, maskmovdq) |
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141631 Massif: percentages don't add up correctly |
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142706 massif numbers don't seem to add up |
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143062 massif crashes on app exit with signal 8 SIGFPE |
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144453 (get_XCon): Assertion 'xpt->max_children != 0' failed. |
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145559 valgrind aborts when malloc_stats is called |
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145609 valgrind aborts all runs with 'repeated section!' |
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145622 --db-attach broken again on x86-64 |
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145837 ==149519 |
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145887 PPC32: getitimer() system call is not supported |
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146252 ==150678 |
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146456 (update_XCon): Assertion 'xpt->curr_space >= -space_delta'... |
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146701 ==134990 |
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146781 Adding support for private futexes |
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147325 valgrind internal error on syscall (SYS_io_destroy, 0) |
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147498 amd64->IR: 0xF0 0xF 0xB0 0xF (lock cmpxchg %cl,(%rdi)) |
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147545 Memcheck: mc_main.c:817 (get_sec_vbits8): Assertion 'n' failed. |
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147628 SALC opcode 0xd6 unimplemented |
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147825 crash on amd64-linux with gcc 4.2 and glibc 2.6 (CFI) |
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148174 Incorrect type of freed_list_volume causes assertion [...] |
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148447 x86_64 : new NOP codes: 66 66 66 66 2e 0f 1f |
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149182 PPC Trap instructions not implemented in valgrind |
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149504 Assertion hit on alloc_xpt->curr_space >= -space_delta |
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149519 ppc32: V aborts with SIGSEGV on execution of a signal handler |
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149892 ==137714 |
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150044 SEGV during stack deregister |
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150380 dwarf/gcc interoperation (dwarf3 read problems) |
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150408 ==148447 |
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150678 guest-amd64/toIR.c:3741 (dis_Grp5): Assertion `sz == 4' failed |
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151209 V unable to execute programs for users with UID > 2^16 |
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151938 help on --db-command= misleading |
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152022 subw $0x28, %%sp causes assertion failure in memcheck |
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152357 inb and outb not recognized in 64-bit mode |
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152501 vex x86->IR: 0x27 0x66 0x89 0x45 (daa) |
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152818 vex x86->IR: 0xF3 0xAC 0xFC 0x9C (rep lodsb) |
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Developer-visible changes: |
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- The names of some functions and types within the Vex IR have |
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changed. Run 'svn log -r1689 VEX/pub/libvex_ir.h' for full details. |
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Any existing standalone tools will have to be updated to reflect |
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these changes. The new names should be clearer. The file |
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VEX/pub/libvex_ir.h is also much better commented. |
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- A number of new debugging command line options have been added. |
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These are mostly of use for debugging the symbol table and line |
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number readers: |
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--trace-symtab-patt=<patt> limit debuginfo tracing to obj name <patt> |
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--trace-cfi=no|yes show call-frame-info details? [no] |
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--debug-dump=syms mimic /usr/bin/readelf --syms |
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--debug-dump=line mimic /usr/bin/readelf --debug-dump=line |
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--debug-dump=frames mimic /usr/bin/readelf --debug-dump=frames |
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--sym-offsets=yes|no show syms in form 'name+offset' ? [no] |
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- Internally, the code base has been further factorised and |
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abstractified, particularly with respect to support for non-Linux |
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OSs. |
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(3.3.0.RC1: 2 Dec 2007, vex r1803, valgrind r7268). |
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(3.3.0.RC2: 5 Dec 2007, vex r1804, valgrind r7282). |
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(3.3.0.RC3: 9 Dec 2007, vex r1804, valgrind r7288). |
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(3.3.0: 10 Dec 2007, vex r1804, valgrind r7290). |
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Release 3.2.3 (29 Jan 2007) |
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Unfortunately 3.2.2 introduced a regression which can cause an |
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assertion failure ("vex: the `impossible' happened: eqIRConst") when |
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running obscure pieces of SSE code. 3.2.3 fixes this and adds one |
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more glibc-2.5 intercept. In all other respects it is identical to |
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3.2.2. Please do not use (or package) 3.2.2; instead use 3.2.3. |
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n-i-bz vex: the `impossible' happened: eqIRConst |
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n-i-bz Add an intercept for glibc-2.5 __stpcpy_chk |
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(3.2.3: 29 Jan 2007, vex r1732, valgrind r6560). |
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Release 3.2.2 (22 Jan 2007) |
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3.2.2 fixes a bunch of bugs in 3.2.1, adds support for glibc-2.5 based |
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systems (openSUSE 10.2, Fedora Core 6), improves support for icc-9.X |
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compiled code, and brings modest performance improvements in some |
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areas, including amd64 floating point, powerpc support, and startup |
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responsiveness on all targets. |
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The fixed bugs are as follows. Note that "n-i-bz" stands for "not in |
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bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us but never got a |
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bugzilla entry. We encourage you to file bugs in bugzilla |
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(http://bugs.kde.org/enter_valgrind_bug.cgi) rather than mailing the |
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developers (or mailing lists) directly. |
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129390 ppc?->IR: some kind of VMX prefetch (dstt) |
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129968 amd64->IR: 0xF 0xAE 0x0 (fxsave) |
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134319 ==129968 |
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133054 'make install' fails with syntax errors |
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118903 ==133054 |
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132998 startup fails in when running on UML |
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134207 pkg-config output contains @VG_PLATFORM@ |
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134727 valgrind exits with "Value too large for defined data type" |
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n-i-bz ppc32/64: support mcrfs |
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n-i-bz Cachegrind/Callgrind: Update cache parameter detection |
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135012 x86->IR: 0xD7 0x8A 0xE0 0xD0 (xlat) |
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125959 ==135012 |
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126147 x86->IR: 0xF2 0xA5 0xF 0x77 (repne movsw) |
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136650 amd64->IR: 0xC2 0x8 0x0 |
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135421 x86->IR: unhandled Grp5(R) case 6 |
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n-i-bz Improved documentation of the IR intermediate representation |
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n-i-bz jcxz (x86) (users list, 8 Nov) |
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n-i-bz ExeContext hashing fix |
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n-i-bz fix CFI reading failures ("Dwarf CFI 0:24 0:32 0:48 0:7") |
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n-i-bz fix Cachegrind/Callgrind simulation bug |
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n-i-bz libmpiwrap.c: fix handling of MPI_LONG_DOUBLE |
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n-i-bz make User errors suppressible |
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136844 corrupted malloc line when using --gen-suppressions=yes |
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138507 ==136844 |
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n-i-bz Speed up the JIT's register allocator |
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n-i-bz Fix confusing leak-checker flag hints |
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n-i-bz Support recent autoswamp versions |
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n-i-bz ppc32/64 dispatcher speedups |
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n-i-bz ppc64 front end rld/rlw improvements |
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n-i-bz ppc64 back end imm64 improvements |
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136300 support 64K pages on ppc64-linux |
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139124 == 136300 |
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n-i-bz fix ppc insn set tests for gcc >= 4.1 |
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137493 x86->IR: recent binutils no-ops |
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137714 x86->IR: 0x66 0xF 0xF7 0xC6 (maskmovdqu) |
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138424 "failed in UME with error 22" (produce a better error msg) |
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138627 Enhancement support for prctl ioctls |
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138896 Add support for usb ioctls |
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136059 ==138896 |
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139050 ppc32->IR: mfspr 268/269 instructions not handled |
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n-i-bz ppc32->IR: lvxl/stvxl |
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n-i-bz glibc-2.5 support |
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n-i-bz memcheck: provide replacement for mempcpy |
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n-i-bz memcheck: replace bcmp in ld.so |
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n-i-bz Use 'ifndef' in VEX's Makefile correctly |
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n-i-bz Suppressions for MVL 4.0.1 on ppc32-linux |
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n-i-bz libmpiwrap.c: Fixes for MPICH |
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n-i-bz More robust handling of hinted client mmaps |
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139776 Invalid read in unaligned memcpy with Intel compiler v9 |
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n-i-bz Generate valid XML even for very long fn names |
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n-i-bz Don't prompt about suppressions for unshown reachable leaks |
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139910 amd64 rcl is not supported |
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n-i-bz DWARF CFI reader: handle DW_CFA_undefined |
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n-i-bz DWARF CFI reader: handle icc9 generated CFI info better |
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n-i-bz fix false uninit-value errs in icc9 generated FP code |
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n-i-bz reduce extraneous frames in libmpiwrap.c |
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n-i-bz support pselect6 on amd64-linux |
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Release 3.2.1 (16 Sept 2006) |
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3.2.1 adds x86/amd64 support for all SSE3 instructions except monitor |
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platforms, adds support for recent binutils (in OpenSUSE 10.2 and |
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Fedora Rawhide) and fixes a bunch of bugs in 3.2.0. Some of the fixed |
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bugs were causing large programs to segfault with --tool=callgrind and |
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The fixed bugs are as follows. Note that "n-i-bz" stands for "not in |
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n-i-bz Expanding brk() into last available page asserts |
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n-i-bz ppc64-linux stack RZ fast-case snafu |
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n-i-bz 'c' in --gen-supps=yes doesn't work |
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n-i-bz VG_N_SEGMENTS too low (users, 28 June) |
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n-i-bz VG_N_SEGNAMES too low (Stu Robinson) |
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106852 x86->IR: fisttp (SSE3) |
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117172 FUTEX_WAKE does not use uaddr2 |
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124039 Lacks support for VKI_[GP]IO_UNIMAP* |
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127521 amd64->IR: 0xF0 0x48 0xF 0xC7 (cmpxchg8b) |
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128917 amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0xF6 0xC4 (psadbw,SSE2) |
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129246 JJ: ppc32/ppc64 syscalls, w/ patch |
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129358 x86->IR: fisttpl (SSE3) |
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129866 cachegrind/callgrind causes executable to die |
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130020 Can't stat .so/.exe error while reading symbols |
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130388 Valgrind aborts when process calls malloc_trim() |
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130638 PATCH: ppc32 missing system calls |
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130785 amd64->IR: unhandled instruction "pushfq" |
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131481: (HINT_NOP) vex x86->IR: 0xF 0x1F 0x0 0xF |
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131298 ==131481 |
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132146 Programs with long sequences of bswap[l,q]s |
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132918 vex amd64->IR: 0xD9 0xF8 (fprem) |
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132813 Assertion at priv/guest-x86/toIR.c:652 fails |
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133051 'cfsi->len > 0 && cfsi->len < 2000000' failed |
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132722 valgrind header files are not standard C |
|
n-i-bz Livelocks entire machine (users list, Timothy Terriberry) |
|
n-i-bz Alex Bennee mmap problem (9 Aug) |
|
n-i-bz BartV: Don't print more lines of a stack-trace than were obtained. |
|
n-i-bz ppc32 SuSE 10.1 redir |
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n-i-bz amd64 padding suppressions |
|
n-i-bz amd64 insn printing fix. |
|
n-i-bz ppc cmp reg,reg fix |
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n-i-bz x86/amd64 iropt e/rflag reduction rules |
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n-i-bz SuSE 10.1 (ppc32) minor fixes |
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133678 amd64->IR: 0x48 0xF 0xC5 0xC0 (pextrw?) |
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133694 aspacem assertion: aspacem_minAddr <= holeStart |
|
n-i-bz callgrind: fix warning about malformed creator line |
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n-i-bz callgrind: fix annotate script for data produced with |
|
--dump-instr=yes |
|
n-i-bz callgrind: fix failed assertion when toggling |
|
instrumentation mode |
|
n-i-bz callgrind: fix annotate script fix warnings with |
|
--collect-jumps=yes |
|
n-i-bz docs path hardwired (Dennis Lubert) |
|
|
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The following bugs were not fixed, due primarily to lack of developer |
|
time, and also because bug reporters did not answer requests for |
|
feedback in time for the release: |
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|
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129390 ppc?->IR: some kind of VMX prefetch (dstt) |
|
129968 amd64->IR: 0xF 0xAE 0x0 (fxsave) |
|
133054 'make install' fails with syntax errors |
|
n-i-bz Signal race condition (users list, 13 June, Johannes Berg) |
|
n-i-bz Unrecognised instruction at address 0x70198EC2 (users list, |
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19 July, Bennee) |
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132998 startup fails in when running on UML |
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The following bug was tentatively fixed on the mainline but the fix |
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was considered too risky to push into 3.2.X: |
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133154 crash when using client requests to register/deregister stack |
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(3.2.1: 16 Sept 2006, vex r1658, valgrind r6070). |
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Release 3.2.0 (7 June 2006) |
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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3.2.0 is a feature release with many significant improvements and the |
|
usual collection of bug fixes. This release supports X86/Linux, |
|
AMD64/Linux, PPC32/Linux and PPC64/Linux. |
|
|
|
Performance, especially of Memcheck, is improved, Addrcheck has been |
|
removed, Callgrind has been added, PPC64/Linux support has been added, |
|
Lackey has been improved, and MPI support has been added. In detail: |
|
|
|
- Memcheck has improved speed and reduced memory use. Run times are |
|
typically reduced by 15-30%, averaging about 24% for SPEC CPU2000. |
|
The other tools have smaller but noticeable speed improvements. We |
|
are interested to hear what improvements users get. |
|
|
|
Memcheck uses less memory due to the introduction of a compressed |
|
representation for shadow memory. The space overhead has been |
|
reduced by a factor of up to four, depending on program behaviour. |
|
This means you should be able to run programs that use more memory |
|
than before without hitting problems. |
|
|
|
- Addrcheck has been removed. It has not worked since version 2.4.0, |
|
and the speed and memory improvements to Memcheck make it redundant. |
|
If you liked using Addrcheck because it didn't give undefined value |
|
errors, you can use the new Memcheck option --undef-value-errors=no |
|
to get the same behaviour. |
|
|
|
- The number of undefined-value errors incorrectly reported by |
|
Memcheck has been reduced (such false reports were already very |
|
rare). In particular, efforts have been made to ensure Memcheck |
|
works really well with gcc 4.0/4.1-generated code on X86/Linux and |
|
AMD64/Linux. |
|
|
|
- Josef Weidendorfer's popular Callgrind tool has been added. Folding |
|
it in was a logical step given its popularity and usefulness, and |
|
makes it easier for us to ensure it works "out of the box" on all |
|
supported targets. The associated KDE KCachegrind GUI remains a |
|
separate project. |
|
|
|
- A new release of the Valkyrie GUI for Memcheck, version 1.2.0, |
|
accompanies this release. Improvements over previous releases |
|
include improved robustness, many refinements to the user interface, |
|
and use of a standard autoconf/automake build system. You can get |
|
it from http://www.valgrind.org/downloads/guis.html. |
|
|
|
- Valgrind now works on PPC64/Linux. As with the AMD64/Linux port, |
|
this supports programs using to 32G of address space. On 64-bit |
|
capable PPC64/Linux setups, you get a dual architecture build so |
|
that both 32-bit and 64-bit executables can be run. Linux on POWER5 |
|
is supported, and POWER4 is also believed to work. Both 32-bit and |
|
64-bit DWARF2 is supported. This port is known to work well with |
|
both gcc-compiled and xlc/xlf-compiled code. |
|
|
|
- Floating point accuracy has been improved for PPC32/Linux. |
|
Specifically, the floating point rounding mode is observed on all FP |
|
arithmetic operations, and multiply-accumulate instructions are |
|
preserved by the compilation pipeline. This means you should get FP |
|
results which are bit-for-bit identical to a native run. These |
|
improvements are also present in the PPC64/Linux port. |
|
|
|
- Lackey, the example tool, has been improved: |
|
|
|
* It has a new option --detailed-counts (off by default) which |
|
causes it to print out a count of loads, stores and ALU operations |
|
done, and their sizes. |
|
|
|
* It has a new option --trace-mem (off by default) which causes it |
|
to print out a trace of all memory accesses performed by a |
|
program. It's a good starting point for building Valgrind tools |
|
that need to track memory accesses. Read the comments at the top |
|
of the file lackey/lk_main.c for details. |
|
|
|
* The original instrumentation (counting numbers of instructions, |
|
jumps, etc) is now controlled by a new option --basic-counts. It |
|
is on by default. |
|
|
|
- MPI support: partial support for debugging distributed applications |
|
using the MPI library specification has been added. Valgrind is |
|
aware of the memory state changes caused by a subset of the MPI |
|
functions, and will carefully check data passed to the (P)MPI_ |
|
interface. |
|
|
|
- A new flag, --error-exitcode=, has been added. This allows changing |
|
the exit code in runs where Valgrind reported errors, which is |
|
useful when using Valgrind as part of an automated test suite. |
|
|
|
- Various segfaults when reading old-style "stabs" debug information |
|
have been fixed. |
|
|
|
- A simple performance evaluation suite has been added. See |
|
perf/README and README_DEVELOPERS for details. There are |
|
various bells and whistles. |
|
|
|
- New configuration flags: |
|
--enable-only32bit |
|
--enable-only64bit |
|
By default, on 64 bit platforms (ppc64-linux, amd64-linux) the build |
|
system will attempt to build a Valgrind which supports both 32-bit |
|
and 64-bit executables. This may not be what you want, and you can |
|
override the default behaviour using these flags. |
|
|
|
Please note that Helgrind is still not working. We have made an |
|
important step towards making it work again, however, with the |
|
addition of function wrapping (see below). |
|
|
|
Other user-visible changes: |
|
|
|
- Valgrind now has the ability to intercept and wrap arbitrary |
|
functions. This is a preliminary step towards making Helgrind work |
|
again, and was required for MPI support. |
|
|
|
- There are some changes to Memcheck's client requests. Some of them |
|
have changed names: |
|
|
|
MAKE_NOACCESS --> MAKE_MEM_NOACCESS |
|
MAKE_WRITABLE --> MAKE_MEM_UNDEFINED |
|
MAKE_READABLE --> MAKE_MEM_DEFINED |
|
|
|
CHECK_WRITABLE --> CHECK_MEM_IS_ADDRESSABLE |
|
CHECK_READABLE --> CHECK_MEM_IS_DEFINED |
|
CHECK_DEFINED --> CHECK_VALUE_IS_DEFINED |
|
|
|
The reason for the change is that the old names are subtly |
|
misleading. The old names will still work, but they are deprecated |
|
and may be removed in a future release. |
|
|
|
We also added a new client request: |
|
|
|
MAKE_MEM_DEFINED_IF_ADDRESSABLE(a, len) |
|
|
|
which is like MAKE_MEM_DEFINED but only affects a byte if the byte is |
|
already addressable. |
|
|
|
- The way client requests are encoded in the instruction stream has |
|
changed. Unfortunately, this means 3.2.0 will not honour client |
|
requests compiled into binaries using headers from earlier versions |
|
of Valgrind. We will try to keep the client request encodings more |
|
stable in future. |
|
|
|
BUGS FIXED: |
|
|
|
108258 NPTL pthread cleanup handlers not called |
|
117290 valgrind is sigKILL'd on startup |
|
117295 == 117290 |
|
118703 m_signals.c:1427 Assertion 'tst->status == VgTs_WaitSys' |
|
118466 add %reg, %reg generates incorrect validity for bit 0 |
|
123210 New: strlen from ld-linux on amd64 |
|
123244 DWARF2 CFI reader: unhandled CFI instruction 0:18 |
|
123248 syscalls in glibc-2.4: openat, fstatat, symlinkat |
|
123258 socketcall.recvmsg(msg.msg_iov[i] points to uninit |
|
123535 mremap(new_addr) requires MREMAP_FIXED in 4th arg |
|
123836 small typo in the doc |
|
124029 ppc compile failed: `vor' gcc 3.3.5 |
|
124222 Segfault: @@don't know what type ':' is |
|
124475 ppc32: crash (syscall?) timer_settime() |
|
124499 amd64->IR: 0xF 0xE 0x48 0x85 (femms) |
|
124528 FATAL: aspacem assertion failed: segment_is_sane |
|
124697 vex x86->IR: 0xF 0x70 0xC9 0x0 (pshufw) |
|
124892 vex x86->IR: 0xF3 0xAE (REPx SCASB) |
|
126216 == 124892 |
|
124808 ppc32: sys_sched_getaffinity() not handled |
|
n-i-bz Very long stabs strings crash m_debuginfo |
|
n-i-bz amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0xF5 (pmaddwd) |
|
125492 ppc32: support a bunch more syscalls |
|
121617 ppc32/64: coredumping gives assertion failure |
|
121814 Coregrind return error as exitcode patch |
|
126517 == 121814 |
|
125607 amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0xA3 0x2 (btw etc) |
|
125651 amd64->IR: 0xF8 0x49 0xFF 0xE3 (clc?) |
|
126253 x86 movx is wrong |
|
126451 3.2 SVN doesn't work on ppc32 CPU's without FPU |
|
126217 increase # threads |
|
126243 vex x86->IR: popw mem |
|
126583 amd64->IR: 0x48 0xF 0xA4 0xC2 (shld $1,%rax,%rdx) |
|
126668 amd64->IR: 0x1C 0xFF (sbb $0xff,%al) |
|
126696 support for CDROMREADRAW ioctl and CDROMREADTOCENTRY fix |
|
126722 assertion: segment_is_sane at m_aspacemgr/aspacemgr.c:1624 |
|
126938 bad checking for syscalls linkat, renameat, symlinkat |
|
|
|
(3.2.0RC1: 27 May 2006, vex r1626, valgrind r5947). |
|
(3.2.0: 7 June 2006, vex r1628, valgrind r5957). |
|
|
|
|
|
Release 3.1.1 (15 March 2006) |
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
|
3.1.1 fixes a bunch of bugs reported in 3.1.0. There is no new |
|
functionality. The fixed bugs are: |
|
|
|
(note: "n-i-bz" means "not in bugzilla" -- this bug does not have |
|
a bugzilla entry). |
|
|
|
n-i-bz ppc32: fsub 3,3,3 in dispatcher doesn't clear NaNs |
|
n-i-bz ppc32: __NR_{set,get}priority |
|
117332 x86: missing line info with icc 8.1 |
|
117366 amd64: 0xDD 0x7C fnstsw |
|
118274 == 117366 |
|
117367 amd64: 0xD9 0xF4 fxtract |
|
117369 amd64: __NR_getpriority (140) |
|
117419 ppc32: lfsu f5, -4(r11) |
|
117419 ppc32: fsqrt |
|
117936 more stabs problems (segfaults while reading debug info) |
|
119914 == 117936 |
|
120345 == 117936 |
|
118239 amd64: 0xF 0xAE 0x3F (clflush) |
|
118939 vm86old system call |
|
n-i-bz memcheck/tests/mempool reads freed memory |
|
n-i-bz AshleyP's custom-allocator assertion |
|
n-i-bz Dirk strict-aliasing stuff |
|
n-i-bz More space for debugger cmd line (Dan Thaler) |
|
n-i-bz Clarified leak checker output message |
|
n-i-bz AshleyP's --gen-suppressions output fix |
|
n-i-bz cg_annotate's --sort option broken |
|
n-i-bz OSet 64-bit fastcmp bug |
|
n-i-bz VG_(getgroups) fix (Shinichi Noda) |
|
n-i-bz ppc32: allocate from callee-saved FP/VMX regs |
|
n-i-bz misaligned path word-size bug in mc_main.c |
|
119297 Incorrect error message for sse code |
|
120410 x86: prefetchw (0xF 0xD 0x48 0x4) |
|
120728 TIOCSERGETLSR, TIOCGICOUNT, HDIO_GET_DMA ioctls |
|
120658 Build fixes for gcc 2.96 |
|
120734 x86: Support for changing EIP in signal handler |
|
n-i-bz memcheck/tests/zeropage de-looping fix |
|
n-i-bz x86: fxtract doesn't work reliably |
|
121662 x86: lock xadd (0xF0 0xF 0xC0 0x2) |
|
121893 calloc does not always return zeroed memory |
|
121901 no support for syscall tkill |
|
n-i-bz Suppression update for Debian unstable |
|
122067 amd64: fcmovnu (0xDB 0xD9) |
|
n-i-bz ppc32: broken signal handling in cpu feature detection |
|
n-i-bz ppc32: rounding mode problems (improved, partial fix only) |
|
119482 ppc32: mtfsb1 |
|
n-i-bz ppc32: mtocrf/mfocrf |
|
|
|
(3.1.1: 15 March 2006, vex r1597, valgrind r5771). |
|
|
|
|
|
Release 3.1.0 (25 November 2005) |
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
|
3.1.0 is a feature release with a number of significant improvements: |
|
AMD64 support is much improved, PPC32 support is good enough to be |
|
usable, and the handling of memory management and address space is |
|
much more robust. In detail: |
|
|
|
- AMD64 support is much improved. The 64-bit vs. 32-bit issues in |
|
3.0.X have been resolved, and it should "just work" now in all |
|
cases. On AMD64 machines both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of |
|
Valgrind are built. The right version will be invoked |
|
automatically, even when using --trace-children and mixing execution |
|
between 64-bit and 32-bit executables. Also, many more instructions |
|
are supported. |
|
|
|
- PPC32 support is now good enough to be usable. It should work with |
|
all tools, but please let us know if you have problems. Three |
|
classes of CPUs are supported: integer only (no FP, no Altivec), |
|
which covers embedded PPC uses, integer and FP but no Altivec |
|
(G3-ish), and CPUs capable of Altivec too (G4, G5). |
|
|
|
- Valgrind's address space management has been overhauled. As a |
|
result, Valgrind should be much more robust with programs that use |
|
large amounts of memory. There should be many fewer "memory |
|
exhausted" messages, and debug symbols should be read correctly on |
|
large (eg. 300MB+) executables. On 32-bit machines the full address |
|
space available to user programs (usually 3GB or 4GB) can be fully |
|
utilised. On 64-bit machines up to 32GB of space is usable; when |
|
using Memcheck that means your program can use up to about 14GB. |
|
|
|
A side effect of this change is that Valgrind is no longer protected |
|
against wild writes by the client. This feature was nice but relied |
|
on the x86 segment registers and so wasn't portable. |
|
|
|
- Most users should not notice, but as part of the address space |
|
manager change, the way Valgrind is built has been changed. Each |
|
tool is now built as a statically linked stand-alone executable, |
|
rather than as a shared object that is dynamically linked with the |
|
core. The "valgrind" program invokes the appropriate tool depending |
|
on the --tool option. This slightly increases the amount of disk |
|
space used by Valgrind, but it greatly simplified many things and |
|
removed Valgrind's dependence on glibc. |
|
|
|
Please note that Addrcheck and Helgrind are still not working. Work |
|
is underway to reinstate them (or equivalents). We apologise for the |
|
inconvenience. |
|
|
|
Other user-visible changes: |
|
|
|
- The --weird-hacks option has been renamed --sim-hints. |
|
|
|
- The --time-stamp option no longer gives an absolute date and time. |
|
It now prints the time elapsed since the program began. |
|
|
|
- It should build with gcc-2.96. |
|
|
|
- Valgrind can now run itself (see README_DEVELOPERS for how). |
|
This is not much use to you, but it means the developers can now |
|
profile Valgrind using Cachegrind. As a result a couple of |
|
performance bad cases have been fixed. |
|
|
|
- The XML output format has changed slightly. See |
|
docs/internals/xml-output.txt. |
|
|
|
- Core dumping has been reinstated (it was disabled in 3.0.0 and 3.0.1). |
|
If your program crashes while running under Valgrind, a core file with |
|
the name "vgcore.<pid>" will be created (if your settings allow core |
|
file creation). Note that the floating point information is not all |
|
there. If Valgrind itself crashes, the OS will create a normal core |
|
file. |
|
|
|
The following are some user-visible changes that occurred in earlier |
|
versions that may not have been announced, or were announced but not |
|
widely noticed. So we're mentioning them now. |
|
|
|
- The --tool flag is optional once again; if you omit it, Memcheck |
|
is run by default. |
|
|
|
- The --num-callers flag now has a default value of 12. It was |
|
previously 4. |
|
|
|
- The --xml=yes flag causes Valgrind's output to be produced in XML |
|
format. This is designed to make it easy for other programs to |
|
consume Valgrind's output. The format is described in the file |
|
docs/internals/xml-format.txt. |
|
|
|
- The --gen-suppressions flag supports an "all" value that causes every |
|
suppression to be printed without asking. |
|
|
|
- The --log-file option no longer puts "pid" in the filename, eg. the |
|
old name "foo.pid12345" is now "foo.12345". |
|
|
|
- There are several graphical front-ends for Valgrind, such as Valkyrie, |
|
Alleyoop and Valgui. See http://www.valgrind.org/downloads/guis.html |
|
for a list. |
|
|
|
BUGS FIXED: |
|
|
|
109861 amd64 hangs at startup |
|
110301 ditto |
|
111554 valgrind crashes with Cannot allocate memory |
|
111809 Memcheck tool doesn't start java |
|
111901 cross-platform run of cachegrind fails on opteron |
|
113468 (vgPlain_mprotect_range): Assertion 'r != -1' failed. |
|
92071 Reading debugging info uses too much memory |
|
109744 memcheck loses track of mmap from direct ld-linux.so.2 |
|
110183 tail of page with _end |
|
82301 FV memory layout too rigid |
|
98278 Infinite recursion possible when allocating memory |
|
108994 Valgrind runs out of memory due to 133x overhead |
|
115643 valgrind cannot allocate memory |
|
105974 vg_hashtable.c static hash table |
|
109323 ppc32: dispatch.S uses Altivec insn, which doesn't work on POWER. |
|
109345 ptrace_setregs not yet implemented for ppc |
|
110831 Would like to be able to run against both 32 and 64 bit |
|
binaries on AMD64 |
|
110829 == 110831 |
|
111781 compile of valgrind-3.0.0 fails on my linux (gcc 2.X prob) |
|
112670 Cachegrind: cg_main.c:486 (handleOneStatement ... |
|
112941 vex x86: 0xD9 0xF4 (fxtract) |
|
110201 == 112941 |
|
113015 vex amd64->IR: 0xE3 0x14 0x48 0x83 (jrcxz) |
|
113126 Crash with binaries built with -gstabs+/-ggdb |
|
104065 == 113126 |
|
115741 == 113126 |
|
113403 Partial SSE3 support on x86 |
|
113541 vex: Grp5(x86) (alt encoding inc/dec) case 1 |
|
113642 valgrind crashes when trying to read debug information |
|
113810 vex x86->IR: 66 0F F6 (66 + PSADBW == SSE PSADBW) |
|
113796 read() and write() do not work if buffer is in shared memory |
|
113851 vex x86->IR: (pmaddwd): 0x66 0xF 0xF5 0xC7 |
|
114366 vex amd64 cannnot handle __asm__( "fninit" ) |
|
114412 vex amd64->IR: 0xF 0xAD 0xC2 0xD3 (128-bit shift, shrdq?) |
|
114455 vex amd64->IR: 0xF 0xAC 0xD0 0x1 (also shrdq) |
|
115590: amd64->IR: 0x67 0xE3 0x9 0xEB (address size override) |
|
115953 valgrind svn r5042 does not build with parallel make (-j3) |
|
116057 maximum instruction size - VG_MAX_INSTR_SZB too small? |
|
116483 shmat failes with invalid argument |
|
102202 valgrind crashes when realloc'ing until out of memory |
|
109487 == 102202 |
|
110536 == 102202 |
|
112687 == 102202 |
|
111724 vex amd64->IR: 0x41 0xF 0xAB (more BT{,S,R,C} fun n games) |
|
111748 vex amd64->IR: 0xDD 0xE2 (fucom) |
|
111785 make fails if CC contains spaces |
|
111829 vex x86->IR: sbb AL, Ib |
|
111851 vex x86->IR: 0x9F 0x89 (lahf/sahf) |
|
112031 iopl on AMD64 and README_MISSING_SYSCALL_OR_IOCTL update |
|
112152 code generation for Xin_MFence on x86 with SSE0 subarch |
|
112167 == 112152 |
|
112789 == 112152 |
|
112199 naked ar tool is used in vex makefile |
|
112501 vex x86->IR: movq (0xF 0x7F 0xC1 0xF) (mmx MOVQ) |
|
113583 == 112501 |
|
112538 memalign crash |
|
113190 Broken links in docs/html/ |
|
113230 Valgrind sys_pipe on x86-64 wrongly thinks file descriptors |
|
should be 64bit |
|
113996 vex amd64->IR: fucomp (0xDD 0xE9) |
|
114196 vex x86->IR: out %eax,(%dx) (0xEF 0xC9 0xC3 0x90) |
|
114289 Memcheck fails to intercept malloc when used in an uclibc environment |
|
114756 mbind syscall support |
|
114757 Valgrind dies with assertion: Assertion 'noLargerThan > 0' failed |
|
114563 stack tracking module not informed when valgrind switches threads |
|
114564 clone() and stacks |
|
114565 == 114564 |
|
115496 glibc crashes trying to use sysinfo page |
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116200 enable fsetxattr, fgetxattr, and fremovexattr for amd64 |
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(3.1.0RC1: 20 November 2005, vex r1466, valgrind r5224). |
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(3.1.0: 26 November 2005, vex r1471, valgrind r5235). |
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Release 3.0.1 (29 August 2005) |
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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3.0.1 fixes a bunch of bugs reported in 3.0.0. There is no new |
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functionality. Some of the fixed bugs are critical, so if you |
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use/distribute 3.0.0, an upgrade to 3.0.1 is recommended. The fixed |
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bugs are: |
|
|
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(note: "n-i-bz" means "not in bugzilla" -- this bug does not have |
|
a bugzilla entry). |
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109313 (== 110505) x86 cmpxchg8b |
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n-i-bz x86: track but ignore changes to %eflags.AC (alignment check) |
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110102 dis_op2_E_G(amd64) |
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110202 x86 sys_waitpid(#286) |
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110203 clock_getres(,0) |
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110208 execve fail wrong retval |
|
110274 SSE1 now mandatory for x86 |
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110388 amd64 0xDD 0xD1 |
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110464 amd64 0xDC 0x1D FCOMP |
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110478 amd64 0xF 0xD PREFETCH |
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n-i-bz XML <unique> printing wrong |
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n-i-bz Dirk r4359 (amd64 syscalls from trunk) |
|
110591 amd64 and x86: rdtsc not implemented properly |
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n-i-bz Nick r4384 (stub implementations of Addrcheck and Helgrind) |
|
110652 AMD64 valgrind crashes on cwtd instruction |
|
110653 AMD64 valgrind crashes on sarb $0x4,foo(%rip) instruction |
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110656 PATH=/usr/bin::/bin valgrind foobar stats ./fooba |
|
110657 Small test fixes |
|
110671 vex x86->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0xF3 0xC3 (rep ret) |
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n-i-bz Nick (Cachegrind should not assert when it encounters a client |
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request.) |
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110685 amd64->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0xE1 0x56 (loope Jb) |
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110830 configuring with --host fails to build 32 bit on 64 bit target |
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110875 Assertion when execve fails |
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n-i-bz Updates to Memcheck manual |
|
n-i-bz Fixed broken malloc_usable_size() |
|
110898 opteron instructions missing: btq btsq btrq bsfq |
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110954 x86->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0xE2 0xF6 (loop Jb) |
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n-i-bz Make suppressions work for "???" lines in stacktraces. |
|
111006 bogus warnings from linuxthreads |
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111092 x86: dis_Grp2(Reg): unhandled case(x86) |
|
111231 sctp_getladdrs() and sctp_getpaddrs() returns uninitialized |
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memory |
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111102 (comment #4) Fixed 64-bit unclean "silly arg" message |
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n-i-bz vex x86->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0x14 0x0 |
|
n-i-bz minor umount/fcntl wrapper fixes |
|
111090 Internal Error running Massif |
|
101204 noisy warning |
|
111513 Illegal opcode for SSE instruction (x86 movups) |
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111555 VEX/Makefile: CC is set to gcc |
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n-i-bz Fix XML bugs in FAQ |
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|
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(3.0.1: 29 August 05, |
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vex/branches/VEX_3_0_BRANCH r1367, |
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valgrind/branches/VALGRIND_3_0_BRANCH r4574). |
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Release 3.0.0 (3 August 2005) |
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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3.0.0 is a major overhaul of Valgrind. The most significant user |
|
visible change is that Valgrind now supports architectures other than |
|
x86. The new architectures it supports are AMD64 and PPC32, and the |
|
infrastructure is present for other architectures to be added later. |
|
|
|
AMD64 support works well, but has some shortcomings: |
|
|
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- It generally won't be as solid as the x86 version. For example, |
|
support for more obscure instructions and system calls may be missing. |
|
We will fix these as they arise. |
|
|
|
- Address space may be limited; see the point about |
|
position-independent executables below. |
|
|
|
- If Valgrind is built on an AMD64 machine, it will only run 64-bit |
|
executables. If you want to run 32-bit x86 executables under Valgrind |
|
on an AMD64, you will need to build Valgrind on an x86 machine and |
|
copy it to the AMD64 machine. And it probably won't work if you do |
|
something tricky like exec'ing a 32-bit program from a 64-bit program |
|
while using --trace-children=yes. We hope to improve this situation |
|
in the future. |
|
|
|
The PPC32 support is very basic. It may not work reliably even for |
|
small programs, but it's a start. Many thanks to Paul Mackerras for |
|
his great work that enabled this support. We are working to make |
|
PPC32 usable as soon as possible. |
|
|
|
Other user-visible changes: |
|
|
|
- Valgrind is no longer built by default as a position-independent |
|
executable (PIE), as this caused too many problems. |
|
|
|
Without PIE enabled, AMD64 programs will only be able to access 2GB of |
|
address space. We will fix this eventually, but not for the moment. |
|
|
|
Use --enable-pie at configure-time to turn this on. |
|
|
|
- Support for programs that use stack-switching has been improved. Use |
|
the --max-stackframe flag for simple cases, and the |
|
VALGRIND_STACK_REGISTER, VALGRIND_STACK_DEREGISTER and |
|
VALGRIND_STACK_CHANGE client requests for trickier cases. |
|
|
|
- Support for programs that use self-modifying code has been improved, |
|
in particular programs that put temporary code fragments on the stack. |
|
This helps for C programs compiled with GCC that use nested functions, |
|
and also Ada programs. This is controlled with the --smc-check |
|
flag, although the default setting should work in most cases. |
|
|
|
- Output can now be printed in XML format. This should make it easier |
|
for tools such as GUI front-ends and automated error-processing |
|
schemes to use Valgrind output as input. The --xml flag controls this. |
|
As part of this change, ELF directory information is read from executables, |
|
so absolute source file paths are available if needed. |
|
|
|
- Programs that allocate many heap blocks may run faster, due to |
|
improvements in certain data structures. |
|
|
|
- Addrcheck is currently not working. We hope to get it working again |
|
soon. Helgrind is still not working, as was the case for the 2.4.0 |
|
release. |
|
|
|
- The JITter has been completely rewritten, and is now in a separate |
|
library, called Vex. This enabled a lot of the user-visible changes, |
|
such as new architecture support. The new JIT unfortunately translates |
|
more slowly than the old one, so programs may take longer to start. |
|
We believe the code quality is produces is about the same, so once |
|
started, programs should run at about the same speed. Feedback about |
|
this would be useful. |
|
|
|
On the plus side, Vex and hence Memcheck tracks value flow properly |
|
through floating point and vector registers, something the 2.X line |
|
could not do. That means that Memcheck is much more likely to be |
|
usably accurate on vectorised code. |
|
|
|
- There is a subtle change to the way exiting of threaded programs |
|
is handled. In 3.0, Valgrind's final diagnostic output (leak check, |
|
etc) is not printed until the last thread exits. If the last thread |
|
to exit was not the original thread which started the program, any |
|
other process wait()-ing on this one to exit may conclude it has |
|
finished before the diagnostic output is printed. This may not be |
|
what you expect. 2.X had a different scheme which avoided this |
|
problem, but caused deadlocks under obscure circumstances, so we |
|
are trying something different for 3.0. |
|
|
|
- Small changes in control log file naming which make it easier to |
|
use valgrind for debugging MPI-based programs. The relevant |
|
new flags are --log-file-exactly= and --log-file-qualifier=. |
|
|
|
- As part of adding AMD64 support, DWARF2 CFI-based stack unwinding |
|
support was added. In principle this means Valgrind can produce |
|
meaningful backtraces on x86 code compiled with -fomit-frame-pointer |
|
providing you also compile your code with -fasynchronous-unwind-tables. |
|
|
|
- The documentation build system has been completely redone. |
|
The documentation masters are now in XML format, and from that |
|
HTML, PostScript and PDF documentation is generated. As a result |
|
the manual is now available in book form. Note that the |
|
documentation in the source tarballs is pre-built, so you don't need |
|
any XML processing tools to build Valgrind from a tarball. |
|
|
|
Changes that are not user-visible: |
|
|
|
- The code has been massively overhauled in order to modularise it. |
|
As a result we hope it is easier to navigate and understand. |
|
|
|
- Lots of code has been rewritten. |
|
|
|
BUGS FIXED: |
|
|
|
110046 sz == 4 assertion failed |
|
109810 vex amd64->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0xA3 0x4C 0x70 0xD7 |
|
109802 Add a plausible_stack_size command-line parameter ? |
|
109783 unhandled ioctl TIOCMGET (running hw detection tool discover) |
|
109780 unhandled ioctl BLKSSZGET (running fdisk -l /dev/hda) |
|
109718 vex x86->IR: unhandled instruction: ffreep |
|
109429 AMD64 unhandled syscall: 127 (sigpending) |
|
109401 false positive uninit in strchr from ld-linux.so.2 |
|
109385 "stabs" parse failure |
|
109378 amd64: unhandled instruction REP NOP |
|
109376 amd64: unhandled instruction LOOP Jb |
|
109363 AMD64 unhandled instruction bytes |
|
109362 AMD64 unhandled syscall: 24 (sched_yield) |
|
109358 fork() won't work with valgrind-3.0 SVN |
|
109332 amd64 unhandled instruction: ADC Ev, Gv |
|
109314 Bogus memcheck report on amd64 |
|
108883 Crash; vg_memory.c:905 (vgPlain_init_shadow_range): |
|
Assertion `vgPlain_defined_init_shadow_page()' failed. |
|
108349 mincore syscall parameter checked incorrectly |
|
108059 build infrastructure: small update |
|
107524 epoll_ctl event parameter checked on EPOLL_CTL_DEL |
|
107123 Vex dies with unhandled instructions: 0xD9 0x31 0xF 0xAE |
|
106841 auxmap & openGL problems |
|
106713 SDL_Init causes valgrind to exit |
|
106352 setcontext and makecontext not handled correctly |
|
106293 addresses beyond initial client stack allocation |
|
not checked in VALGRIND_DO_LEAK_CHECK |
|
106283 PIE client programs are loaded at address 0 |
|
105831 Assertion `vgPlain_defined_init_shadow_page()' failed. |
|
105039 long run-times probably due to memory manager |
|
104797 valgrind needs to be aware of BLKGETSIZE64 |
|
103594 unhandled instruction: FICOM |
|
103320 Valgrind 2.4.0 fails to compile with gcc 3.4.3 and -O0 |
|
103168 potentially memory leak in coregrind/ume.c |
|
102039 bad permissions for mapped region at address 0xB7C73680 |
|
101881 weird assertion problem |
|
101543 Support fadvise64 syscalls |
|
75247 x86_64/amd64 support (the biggest "bug" we have ever fixed) |
|
|
|
(3.0RC1: 27 July 05, vex r1303, valgrind r4283). |
|
(3.0.0: 3 August 05, vex r1313, valgrind r4316). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stable release 2.4.1 (1 August 2005) |
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
|
(The notes for this release have been lost. Sorry! It would have |
|
contained various bug fixes but no new features.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stable release 2.4.0 (March 2005) -- CHANGES RELATIVE TO 2.2.0 |
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
|
2.4.0 brings many significant changes and bug fixes. The most |
|
significant user-visible change is that we no longer supply our own |
|
pthread implementation. Instead, Valgrind is finally capable of |
|
running the native thread library, either LinuxThreads or NPTL. |
|
|
|
This means our libpthread has gone, along with the bugs associated |
|
with it. Valgrind now supports the kernel's threading syscalls, and |
|
lets you use your standard system libpthread. As a result: |
|
|
|
* There are many fewer system dependencies and strange library-related |
|
bugs. There is a small performance improvement, and a large |
|
stability improvement. |
|
|
|
* On the downside, Valgrind can no longer report misuses of the POSIX |
|
PThreads API. It also means that Helgrind currently does not work. |
|
We hope to fix these problems in a future release. |
|
|
|
Note that running the native thread libraries does not mean Valgrind |
|
is able to provide genuine concurrent execution on SMPs. We still |
|
impose the restriction that only one thread is running at any given |
|
time. |
|
|
|
There are many other significant changes too: |
|
|
|
* Memcheck is (once again) the default tool. |
|
|
|
* The default stack backtrace is now 12 call frames, rather than 4. |
|
|
|
* Suppressions can have up to 25 call frame matches, rather than 4. |
|
|
|
* Memcheck and Addrcheck use less memory. Under some circumstances, |
|
they no longer allocate shadow memory if there are large regions of |
|
memory with the same A/V states - such as an mmaped file. |
|
|
|
* The memory-leak detector in Memcheck and Addrcheck has been |
|
improved. It now reports more types of memory leak, including |
|
leaked cycles. When reporting leaked memory, it can distinguish |
|
between directly leaked memory (memory with no references), and |
|
indirectly leaked memory (memory only referred to by other leaked |
|
memory). |
|
|
|
* Memcheck's confusion over the effect of mprotect() has been fixed: |
|
previously mprotect could erroneously mark undefined data as |
|
defined. |
|
|
|
* Signal handling is much improved and should be very close to what |
|
you get when running natively. |
|
|
|
One result of this is that Valgrind observes changes to sigcontexts |
|
passed to signal handlers. Such modifications will take effect when |
|
the signal returns. You will need to run with --single-step=yes to |
|
make this useful. |
|
|
|
* Valgrind is built in Position Independent Executable (PIE) format if |
|
your toolchain supports it. This allows it to take advantage of all |
|
the available address space on systems with 4Gbyte user address |
|
spaces. |
|
|
|
* Valgrind can now run itself (requires PIE support). |
|
|
|
* Syscall arguments are now checked for validity. Previously all |
|
memory used by syscalls was checked, but now the actual values |
|
passed are also checked. |
|
|
|
* Syscall wrappers are more robust against bad addresses being passed |
|
to syscalls: they will fail with EFAULT rather than killing Valgrind |
|
with SIGSEGV. |
|
|
|
* Because clone() is directly supported, some non-pthread uses of it |
|
will work. Partial sharing (where some resources are shared, and |
|
some are not) is not supported. |
|
|
|
* open() and readlink() on /proc/self/exe are supported. |
|
|
|
BUGS FIXED: |
|
|
|
88520 pipe+fork+dup2 kills the main program |
|
88604 Valgrind Aborts when using $VALGRIND_OPTS and user progra... |
|
88614 valgrind: vg_libpthread.c:2323 (read): Assertion `read_pt... |
|
88703 Stabs parser fails to handle ";" |
|
88886 ioctl wrappers for TIOCMBIS and TIOCMBIC |
|
89032 valgrind pthread_cond_timedwait fails |
|
89106 the 'impossible' happened |
|
89139 Missing sched_setaffinity & sched_getaffinity |
|
89198 valgrind lacks support for SIOCSPGRP and SIOCGPGRP |
|
89263 Missing ioctl translations for scsi-generic and CD playing |
|
89440 tests/deadlock.c line endings |
|
89481 `impossible' happened: EXEC FAILED |
|
89663 valgrind 2.2.0 crash on Redhat 7.2 |
|
89792 Report pthread_mutex_lock() deadlocks instead of returnin... |
|
90111 statvfs64 gives invalid error/warning |
|
90128 crash+memory fault with stabs generated by gnat for a run... |
|
90778 VALGRIND_CHECK_DEFINED() not as documented in memcheck.h |
|
90834 cachegrind crashes at end of program without reporting re... |
|
91028 valgrind: vg_memory.c:229 (vgPlain_unmap_range): Assertio... |
|
91162 valgrind crash while debugging drivel 1.2.1 |
|
91199 Unimplemented function |
|
91325 Signal routing does not propagate the siginfo structure |
|
91599 Assertion `cv == ((void *)0)' |
|
91604 rw_lookup clears orig and sends the NULL value to rw_new |
|
91821 Small problems building valgrind with $top_builddir ne $t... |
|
91844 signal 11 (SIGSEGV) at get_tcb (libpthread.c:86) in corec... |
|
92264 UNIMPLEMENTED FUNCTION: pthread_condattr_setpshared |
|
92331 per-target flags necessitate AM_PROG_CC_C_O |
|
92420 valgrind doesn't compile with linux 2.6.8.1/9 |
|
92513 Valgrind 2.2.0 generates some warning messages |
|
92528 vg_symtab2.c:170 (addLoc): Assertion `loc->size > 0' failed. |
|
93096 unhandled ioctl 0x4B3A and 0x5601 |
|
93117 Tool and core interface versions do not match |
|
93128 Can't run valgrind --tool=memcheck because of unimplement... |
|
93174 Valgrind can crash if passed bad args to certain syscalls |
|
93309 Stack frame in new thread is badly aligned |
|
93328 Wrong types used with sys_sigprocmask() |
|
93763 /usr/include/asm/msr.h is missing |
|
93776 valgrind: vg_memory.c:508 (vgPlain_find_map_space): Asser... |
|
93810 fcntl() argument checking a bit too strict |
|
94378 Assertion `tst->sigqueue_head != tst->sigqueue_tail' failed. |
|
94429 valgrind 2.2.0 segfault with mmap64 in glibc 2.3.3 |
|
94645 Impossible happened: PINSRW mem |
|
94953 valgrind: the `impossible' happened: SIGSEGV |
|
95667 Valgrind does not work with any KDE app |
|
96243 Assertion 'res==0' failed |
|
96252 stage2 loader of valgrind fails to allocate memory |
|
96520 All programs crashing at _dl_start (in /lib/ld-2.3.3.so) ... |
|
96660 ioctl CDROMREADTOCENTRY causes bogus warnings |
|
96747 After looping in a segfault handler, the impossible happens |
|
96923 Zero sized arrays crash valgrind trace back with SIGFPE |
|
96948 valgrind stops with assertion failure regarding mmap2 |
|
96966 valgrind fails when application opens more than 16 sockets |
|
97398 valgrind: vg_libpthread.c:2667 Assertion failed |
|
97407 valgrind: vg_mylibc.c:1226 (vgPlain_safe_fd): Assertion `... |
|
97427 "Warning: invalid file descriptor -1 in syscall close()" ... |
|
97785 missing backtrace |
|
97792 build in obj dir fails - autoconf / makefile cleanup |
|
97880 pthread_mutex_lock fails from shared library (special ker... |
|
97975 program aborts without ang VG messages |
|
98129 Failed when open and close file 230000 times using stdio |
|
98175 Crashes when using valgrind-2.2.0 with a program using al... |
|
98288 Massif broken |
|
98303 UNIMPLEMENTED FUNCTION pthread_condattr_setpshared |
|
98630 failed--compilation missing warnings.pm, fails to make he... |
|
98756 Cannot valgrind signal-heavy kdrive X server |
|
98966 valgrinding the JVM fails with a sanity check assertion |
|
99035 Valgrind crashes while profiling |
|
99142 loops with message "Signal 11 being dropped from thread 0... |
|
99195 threaded apps crash on thread start (using QThread::start... |
|
99348 Assertion `vgPlain_lseek(core_fd, 0, 1) == phdrs[i].p_off... |
|
99568 False negative due to mishandling of mprotect |
|
99738 valgrind memcheck crashes on program that uses sigitimer |
|
99923 0-sized allocations are reported as leaks |
|
99949 program seg faults after exit() |
|
100036 "newSuperblock's request for 1048576 bytes failed" |
|
100116 valgrind: (pthread_cond_init): Assertion `sizeof(* cond) ... |
|
100486 memcheck reports "valgrind: the `impossible' happened: V... |
|
100833 second call to "mremap" fails with EINVAL |
|
101156 (vgPlain_find_map_space): Assertion `(addr & ((1 << 12)-1... |
|
101173 Assertion `recDepth >= 0 && recDepth < 500' failed |
|
101291 creating threads in a forked process fails |
|
101313 valgrind causes different behavior when resizing a window... |
|
101423 segfault for c++ array of floats |
|
101562 valgrind massif dies on SIGINT even with signal handler r... |
|
|
|
|
|
Stable release 2.2.0 (31 August 2004) -- CHANGES RELATIVE TO 2.0.0 |
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
|
2.2.0 brings nine months worth of improvements and bug fixes. We |
|
believe it to be a worthy successor to 2.0.0. There are literally |
|
hundreds of bug fixes and minor improvements. There are also some |
|
fairly major user-visible changes: |
|
|
|
* A complete overhaul of handling of system calls and signals, and |
|
their interaction with threads. In general, the accuracy of the |
|
system call, thread and signal simulations is much improved: |
|
|
|
- Blocking system calls behave exactly as they do when running |
|
natively (not on valgrind). That is, if a syscall blocks only the |
|
calling thread when running natively, than it behaves the same on |
|
valgrind. No more mysterious hangs because V doesn't know that some |
|
syscall or other, should block only the calling thread. |
|
|
|
- Interrupted syscalls should now give more faithful results. |
|
|
|
- Signal contexts in signal handlers are supported. |
|
|
|
* Improvements to NPTL support to the extent that V now works |
|
properly on NPTL-only setups. |
|
|
|
* Greater isolation between Valgrind and the program being run, so |
|
the program is less likely to inadvertently kill Valgrind by |
|
doing wild writes. |
|
|
|
* Massif: a new space profiling tool. Try it! It's cool, and it'll |
|
tell you in detail where and when your C/C++ code is allocating heap. |
|
Draws pretty .ps pictures of memory use against time. A potentially |
|
powerful tool for making sense of your program's space use. |
|
|
|
* File descriptor leakage checks. When enabled, Valgrind will print out |
|
a list of open file descriptors on exit. |
|
|
|
* Improved SSE2/SSE3 support. |
|
|
|
* Time-stamped output; use --time-stamp=yes |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stable release 2.2.0 (31 August 2004) -- CHANGES RELATIVE TO 2.1.2 |
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
|
2.2.0 is not much different from 2.1.2, released seven weeks ago. |
|
A number of bugs have been fixed, most notably #85658, which gave |
|
problems for quite a few people. There have been many internal |
|
cleanups, but those are not user visible. |
|
|
|
The following bugs have been fixed since 2.1.2: |
|
|
|
85658 Assert in coregrind/vg_libpthread.c:2326 (open64) != |
|
(void*)0 failed |
|
This bug was reported multiple times, and so the following |
|
duplicates of it are also fixed: 87620, 85796, 85935, 86065, |
|
86919, 86988, 87917, 88156 |
|
|
|
80716 Semaphore mapping bug caused by unmap (sem_destroy) |
|
(Was fixed prior to 2.1.2) |
|
|
|
86987 semctl and shmctl syscalls family is not handled properly |
|
|
|
86696 valgrind 2.1.2 + RH AS2.1 + librt |
|
|
|
86730 valgrind locks up at end of run with assertion failure |
|
in __pthread_unwind |
|
|
|
86641 memcheck doesn't work with Mesa OpenGL/ATI on Suse 9.1 |
|
(also fixes 74298, a duplicate of this) |
|
|
|
85947 MMX/SSE unhandled instruction 'sfence' |
|
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84978 Wrong error "Conditional jump or move depends on |
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uninitialised value" resulting from "sbbl %reg, %reg" |
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86254 ssort() fails when signed int return type from comparison is |
|
too small to handle result of unsigned int subtraction |
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87089 memalign( 4, xxx) makes valgrind assert |
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|
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86407 Add support for low-level parallel port driver ioctls. |
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|
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70587 Add timestamps to Valgrind output? (wishlist) |
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84937 vg_libpthread.c:2505 (se_remap): Assertion `res == 0' |
|
(fixed prior to 2.1.2) |
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86317 cannot load libSDL-1.2.so.0 using valgrind |
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|
86989 memcpy from mac_replace_strmem.c complains about |
|
uninitialized pointers passed when length to copy is zero |
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|
85811 gnu pascal symbol causes segmentation fault; ok in 2.0.0 |
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|
79138 writing to sbrk()'d memory causes segfault |
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|
77369 sched deadlock while signal received during pthread_join |
|
and the joined thread exited |
|
|
|
88115 In signal handler for SIGFPE, siginfo->si_addr is wrong |
|
under Valgrind |
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|
|
78765 Massif crashes on app exit if FP exceptions are enabled |
|
|
|
Additionally there are the following changes, which are not |
|
connected to any bug report numbers, AFAICS: |
|
|
|
* Fix scary bug causing mis-identification of SSE stores vs |
|
loads and so causing memcheck to sometimes give nonsense results |
|
on SSE code. |
|
|
|
* Add support for the POSIX message queue system calls. |
|
|
|
* Fix to allow 32-bit Valgrind to run on AMD64 boxes. Note: this does |
|
NOT allow Valgrind to work with 64-bit executables - only with 32-bit |
|
executables on an AMD64 box. |
|
|
|
* At configure time, only check whether linux/mii.h can be processed |
|
so that we don't generate ugly warnings by trying to compile it. |
|
|
|
* Add support for POSIX clocks and timers. |
|
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|
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|
Developer (cvs head) release 2.1.2 (18 July 2004) |
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
|
2.1.2 contains four months worth of bug fixes and refinements. |
|
Although officially a developer release, we believe it to be stable |
|
enough for widespread day-to-day use. 2.1.2 is pretty good, so try it |
|
first, although there is a chance it won't work. If so then try 2.0.0 |
|
and tell us what went wrong." 2.1.2 fixes a lot of problems present |
|
in 2.0.0 and is generally a much better product. |
|
|
|
Relative to 2.1.1, a large number of minor problems with 2.1.1 have |
|
been fixed, and so if you use 2.1.1 you should try 2.1.2. Users of |
|
the last stable release, 2.0.0, might also want to try this release. |
|
|
|
The following bugs, and probably many more, have been fixed. These |
|
are listed at http://bugs.kde.org. Reporting a bug for valgrind in |
|
the http://bugs.kde.org is much more likely to get you a fix than |
|
mailing developers directly, so please continue to keep sending bugs |
|
there. |
|
|
|
76869 Crashes when running any tool under Fedora Core 2 test1 |
|
This fixes the problem with returning from a signal handler |
|
when VDSOs are turned off in FC2. |
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|
|
69508 java 1.4.2 client fails with erroneous "stack size too small". |
|
This fix makes more of the pthread stack attribute related |
|
functions work properly. Java still doesn't work though. |
|
|
|
71906 malloc alignment should be 8, not 4 |
|
All memory returned by malloc/new etc is now at least |
|
8-byte aligned. |
|
|
|
81970 vg_alloc_ThreadState: no free slots available |
|
(closed because the workaround is simple: increase |
|
VG_N_THREADS, rebuild and try again.) |
|
|
|
78514 Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialized value(s) |
|
(a slight mishanding of FP code in memcheck) |
|
|
|
77952 pThread Support (crash) (due to initialisation-ordering probs) |
|
(also 85118) |
|
|
|
80942 Addrcheck wasn't doing overlap checking as it should. |
|
78048 return NULL on malloc/new etc failure, instead of asserting |
|
73655 operator new() override in user .so files often doesn't get picked up |
|
83060 Valgrind does not handle native kernel AIO |
|
69872 Create proper coredumps after fatal signals |
|
82026 failure with new glibc versions: __libc_* functions are not exported |
|
70344 UNIMPLEMENTED FUNCTION: tcdrain |
|
81297 Cancellation of pthread_cond_wait does not require mutex |
|
82872 Using debug info from additional packages (wishlist) |
|
83025 Support for ioctls FIGETBSZ and FIBMAP |
|
83340 Support for ioctl HDIO_GET_IDENTITY |
|
79714 Support for the semtimedop system call. |
|
77022 Support for ioctls FBIOGET_VSCREENINFO and FBIOGET_FSCREENINFO |
|
82098 hp2ps ansification (wishlist) |
|
83573 Valgrind SIGSEGV on execve |
|
82999 show which cmdline option was erroneous (wishlist) |
|
83040 make valgrind VPATH and distcheck-clean (wishlist) |
|
83998 Assertion `newfd > vgPlain_max_fd' failed (see below) |
|
82722 Unchecked mmap in as_pad leads to mysterious failures later |
|
78958 memcheck seg faults while running Mozilla |
|
85416 Arguments with colon (e.g. --logsocket) ignored |
|
|
|
|
|
Additionally there are the following changes, which are not |
|
connected to any bug report numbers, AFAICS: |
|
|
|
* Rearranged address space layout relative to 2.1.1, so that |
|
Valgrind/tools will run out of memory later than currently in many |
|
circumstances. This is good news esp. for Calltree. It should |
|
be possible for client programs to allocate over 800MB of |
|
memory when using memcheck now. |
|
|
|
* Improved checking when laying out memory. Should hopefully avoid |
|
the random segmentation faults that 2.1.1 sometimes caused. |
|
|
|
* Support for Fedora Core 2 and SuSE 9.1. Improvements to NPTL |
|
support to the extent that V now works properly on NPTL-only setups. |
|
|
|
* Renamed the following options: |
|
--logfile-fd --> --log-fd |
|
--logfile --> --log-file |
|
--logsocket --> --log-socket |
|
to be consistent with each other and other options (esp. --input-fd). |
|
|
|
* Add support for SIOCGMIIPHY, SIOCGMIIREG and SIOCSMIIREG ioctls and |
|
improve the checking of other interface related ioctls. |
|
|
|
* Fix building with gcc-3.4.1. |
|
|
|
* Remove limit on number of semaphores supported. |
|
|
|
* Add support for syscalls: set_tid_address (258), acct (51). |
|
|
|
* Support instruction "repne movs" -- not official but seems to occur. |
|
|
|
* Implement an emulated soft limit for file descriptors in addition to |
|
the current reserved area, which effectively acts as a hard limit. The |
|
setrlimit system call now simply updates the emulated limits as best |
|
as possible - the hard limit is not allowed to move at all and just |
|
returns EPERM if you try and change it. This should stop reductions |
|
in the soft limit causing assertions when valgrind tries to allocate |
|
descriptors from the reserved area. |
|
(This actually came from bug #83998). |
|
|
|
* Major overhaul of Cachegrind implementation. First user-visible change |
|
is that cachegrind.out files are now typically 90% smaller than they |
|
used to be; code annotation times are correspondingly much smaller. |
|
Second user-visible change is that hit/miss counts for code that is |
|
unloaded at run-time is no longer dumped into a single "discard" pile, |
|
but accurately preserved. |
|
|
|
* Client requests for telling valgrind about memory pools. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Developer (cvs head) release 2.1.1 (12 March 2004) |
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
|
2.1.1 contains some internal structural changes needed for V's |
|
long-term future. These don't affect end-users. Most notable |
|
user-visible changes are: |
|
|
|
* Greater isolation between Valgrind and the program being run, so |
|
the program is less likely to inadvertently kill Valgrind by |
|
doing wild writes. |
|
|
|
* Massif: a new space profiling tool. Try it! It's cool, and it'll |
|
tell you in detail where and when your C/C++ code is allocating heap. |
|
Draws pretty .ps pictures of memory use against time. A potentially |
|
powerful tool for making sense of your program's space use. |
|
|
|
* Fixes for many bugs, including support for more SSE2/SSE3 instructions, |
|
various signal/syscall things, and various problems with debug |
|
info readers. |
|
|
|
* Support for glibc-2.3.3 based systems. |
|
|
|
We are now doing automatic overnight build-and-test runs on a variety |
|
of distros. As a result, we believe 2.1.1 builds and runs on: |
|
Red Hat 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9, Fedora Core 1, SuSE 8.2, SuSE 9. |
|
|
|
|
|
The following bugs, and probably many more, have been fixed. These |
|
are listed at http://bugs.kde.org. Reporting a bug for valgrind in |
|
the http://bugs.kde.org is much more likely to get you a fix than |
|
mailing developers directly, so please continue to keep sending bugs |
|
there. |
|
|
|
69616 glibc 2.3.2 w/NPTL is massively different than what valgrind expects |
|
69856 I don't know how to instrument MMXish stuff (Helgrind) |
|
73892 valgrind segfaults starting with Objective-C debug info |
|
(fix for S-type stabs) |
|
73145 Valgrind complains too much about close(<reserved fd>) |
|
73902 Shadow memory allocation seems to fail on RedHat 8.0 |
|
68633 VG_N_SEMAPHORES too low (V itself was leaking semaphores) |
|
75099 impossible to trace multiprocess programs |
|
76839 the `impossible' happened: disInstr: INT but not 0x80 ! |
|
76762 vg_to_ucode.c:3748 (dis_push_segreg): Assertion `sz == 4' failed. |
|
76747 cannot include valgrind.h in c++ program |
|
76223 parsing B(3,10) gave NULL type => impossible happens |
|
75604 shmdt handling problem |
|
76416 Problems with gcc 3.4 snap 20040225 |
|
75614 using -gstabs when building your programs the `impossible' happened |
|
75787 Patch for some CDROM ioctls CDORM_GET_MCN, CDROM_SEND_PACKET, |
|
75294 gcc 3.4 snapshot's libstdc++ have unsupported instructions. |
|
(REP RET) |
|
73326 vg_symtab2.c:272 (addScopeRange): Assertion `range->size > 0' failed. |
|
72596 not recognizing __libc_malloc |
|
69489 Would like to attach ddd to running program |
|
72781 Cachegrind crashes with kde programs |
|
73055 Illegal operand at DXTCV11CompressBlockSSE2 (more SSE opcodes) |
|
73026 Descriptor leak check reports port numbers wrongly |
|
71705 README_MISSING_SYSCALL_OR_IOCTL out of date |
|
72643 Improve support for SSE/SSE2 instructions |
|
72484 valgrind leaves it's own signal mask in place when execing |
|
72650 Signal Handling always seems to restart system calls |
|
72006 The mmap system call turns all errors in ENOMEM |
|
71781 gdb attach is pretty useless |
|
71180 unhandled instruction bytes: 0xF 0xAE 0x85 0xE8 |
|
69886 writes to zero page cause valgrind to assert on exit |
|
71791 crash when valgrinding gimp 1.3 (stabs reader problem) |
|
69783 unhandled syscall: 218 |
|
69782 unhandled instruction bytes: 0x66 0xF 0x2B 0x80 |
|
70385 valgrind fails if the soft file descriptor limit is less |
|
than about 828 |
|
69529 "rep; nop" should do a yield |
|
70827 programs with lots of shared libraries report "mmap failed" |
|
for some of them when reading symbols |
|
71028 glibc's strnlen is optimised enough to confuse valgrind |
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unstable (cvs head) release 2.1.0 (15 December 2003) |
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
|
For whatever it's worth, 2.1.0 actually seems pretty darn stable to me |
|
(Julian). It looks eminently usable, and given that it fixes some |
|
significant bugs, may well be worth using on a day-to-day basis. |
|
2.1.0 is known to build and pass regression tests on: SuSE 9, SuSE |
|
8.2, RedHat 8. |
|
|
|
2.1.0 most notably includes Jeremy Fitzhardinge's complete overhaul of |
|
handling of system calls and signals, and their interaction with |
|
threads. In general, the accuracy of the system call, thread and |
|
signal simulations is much improved. Specifically: |
|
|
|
- Blocking system calls behave exactly as they do when running |
|
natively (not on valgrind). That is, if a syscall blocks only the |
|
calling thread when running natively, than it behaves the same on |
|
valgrind. No more mysterious hangs because V doesn't know that some |
|
syscall or other, should block only the calling thread. |
|
|
|
- Interrupted syscalls should now give more faithful results. |
|
|
|
- Finally, signal contexts in signal handlers are supported. As a |
|
result, konqueror on SuSE 9 no longer segfaults when notified of |
|
file changes in directories it is watching. |
|
|
|
Other changes: |
|
|
|
- Robert Walsh's file descriptor leakage checks. When enabled, |
|
Valgrind will print out a list of open file descriptors on |
|
exit. Along with each file descriptor, Valgrind prints out a stack |
|
backtrace of where the file was opened and any details relating to the |
|
file descriptor such as the file name or socket details. |
|
To use, give: --track-fds=yes |
|
|
|
- Implemented a few more SSE/SSE2 instructions. |
|
|
|
- Less crud on the stack when you do 'where' inside a GDB attach. |
|
|
|
- Fixed the following bugs: |
|
68360: Valgrind does not compile against 2.6.0-testX kernels |
|
68525: CVS head doesn't compile on C90 compilers |
|
68566: pkgconfig support (wishlist) |
|
68588: Assertion `sz == 4' failed in vg_to_ucode.c (disInstr) |
|
69140: valgrind not able to explicitly specify a path to a binary. |
|
69432: helgrind asserts encountering a MutexErr when there are |
|
EraserErr suppressions |
|
|
|
- Increase the max size of the translation cache from 200k average bbs |
|
to 300k average bbs. Programs on the size of OOo (680m17) are |
|
thrashing the cache at the smaller size, creating large numbers of |
|
retranslations and wasting significant time as a result. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stable release 2.0.0 (5 Nov 2003) |
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
|
|
|
2.0.0 improves SSE/SSE2 support, fixes some minor bugs, and |
|
improves support for SuSE 9 and the Red Hat "Severn" beta. |
|
|
|
- Further improvements to SSE/SSE2 support. The entire test suite of |
|
the GNU Scientific Library (gsl-1.4) compiled with Intel Icc 7.1 |
|
20030307Z '-g -O -xW' now works. I think this gives pretty good |
|
coverage of SSE/SSE2 floating point instructions, or at least the |
|
subset emitted by Icc. |
|
|
|
- Also added support for the following instructions: |
|
MOVNTDQ UCOMISD UNPCKLPS UNPCKHPS SQRTSS |
|
PUSH/POP %{FS,GS}, and PUSH %CS (Nb: there is no POP %CS). |
|
|
|
- CFI support for GDB version 6. Needed to enable newer GDBs |
|
to figure out where they are when using --gdb-attach=yes. |
|
|
|
- Fix this: |
|
mc_translate.c:1091 (memcheck_instrument): Assertion |
|
`u_in->size == 4 || u_in->size == 16' failed. |
|
|
|
- Return an error rather than panicing when given a bad socketcall. |
|
|
|
- Fix checking of syscall rt_sigtimedwait(). |
|
|
|
- Implement __NR_clock_gettime (syscall 265). Needed on Red Hat Severn. |
|
|
|
- Fixed bug in overlap check in strncpy() -- it was assuming the src was 'n' |
|
bytes long, when it could be shorter, which could cause false |
|
positives. |
|
|
|
- Support use of select() for very large numbers of file descriptors. |
|
|
|
- Don't fail silently if the executable is statically linked, or is |
|
setuid/setgid. Print an error message instead. |
|
|
|
- Support for old DWARF-1 format line number info. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Snapshot 20031012 (12 October 2003) |
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
|
|
|
Three months worth of bug fixes, roughly. Most significant single |
|
change is improved SSE/SSE2 support, mostly thanks to Dirk Mueller. |
|
|
|
20031012 builds on Red Hat Fedora ("Severn") but doesn't really work |
|
(curiously, mozilla runs OK, but a modest "ls -l" bombs). I hope to |
|
get a working version out soon. It may or may not work ok on the |
|
forthcoming SuSE 9; I hear positive noises about it but haven't been |
|
able to verify this myself (not until I get hold of a copy of 9). |
|
|
|
A detailed list of changes, in no particular order: |
|
|
|
- Describe --gen-suppressions in the FAQ. |
|
|
|
- Syscall __NR_waitpid supported. |
|
|
|
- Minor MMX bug fix. |
|
|
|
- -v prints program's argv[] at startup. |
|
|
|
- More glibc-2.3 suppressions. |
|
|
|
- Suppressions for stack underrun bug(s) in the c++ support library |
|
distributed with Intel Icc 7.0. |
|
|
|
- Fix problems reading /proc/self/maps. |
|
|
|
- Fix a couple of messages that should have been suppressed by -q, |
|
but weren't. |
|
|
|
- Make Addrcheck understand "Overlap" suppressions. |
|
|
|
- At startup, check if program is statically linked and bail out if so. |
|
|
|
- Cachegrind: Auto-detect Intel Pentium-M, also VIA Nehemiah |
|
|
|
- Memcheck/addrcheck: minor speed optimisations |
|
|
|
- Handle syscall __NR_brk more correctly than before. |
|
|
|
- Fixed incorrect allocate/free mismatch errors when using |
|
operator new(unsigned, std::nothrow_t const&) |
|
operator new[](unsigned, std::nothrow_t const&) |
|
|
|
- Support POSIX pthread spinlocks. |
|
|
|
- Fixups for clean compilation with gcc-3.3.1. |
|
|
|
- Implemented more opcodes: |
|
- push %es |
|
- push %ds |
|
- pop %es |
|
- pop %ds |
|
- movntq |
|
- sfence |
|
- pshufw |
|
- pavgb |
|
- ucomiss |
|
- enter |
|
- mov imm32, %esp |
|
- all "in" and "out" opcodes |
|
- inc/dec %esp |
|
- A whole bunch of SSE/SSE2 instructions |
|
|
|
- Memcheck: don't bomb on SSE/SSE2 code. |
|
|
|
|
|
Snapshot 20030725 (25 July 2003) |
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
|
|
|
Fixes some minor problems in 20030716. |
|
|
|
- Fix bugs in overlap checking for strcpy/memcpy etc. |
|
|
|
- Do overlap checking with Addrcheck as well as Memcheck. |
|
|
|
- Fix this: |
|
Memcheck: the `impossible' happened: |
|
get_error_name: unexpected type |
|
|
|
- Install headers needed to compile new skins. |
|
|
|
- Remove leading spaces and colon in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH / LD_PRELOAD |
|
passed to non-traced children. |
|
|
|
- Fix file descriptor leak in valgrind-listener. |
|
|
|
- Fix longstanding bug in which the allocation point of a |
|
block resized by realloc was not correctly set. This may |
|
have caused confusing error messages. |
|
|
|
|
|
Snapshot 20030716 (16 July 2003) |
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
|
|
|
20030716 is a snapshot of our current CVS head (development) branch. |
|
This is the branch which will become valgrind-2.0. It contains |
|
significant enhancements over the 1.9.X branch. |
|
|
|
Despite this being a snapshot of the CVS head, it is believed to be |
|
quite stable -- at least as stable as 1.9.6 or 1.0.4, if not more so |
|
-- and therefore suitable for widespread use. Please let us know asap |
|
if it causes problems for you. |
|
|
|
Two reasons for releasing a snapshot now are: |
|
|
|
- It's been a while since 1.9.6, and this snapshot fixes |
|
various problems that 1.9.6 has with threaded programs |
|
on glibc-2.3.X based systems. |
|
|
|
- So as to make available improvements in the 2.0 line. |
|
|
|
Major changes in 20030716, as compared to 1.9.6: |
|
|
|
- More fixes to threading support on glibc-2.3.1 and 2.3.2-based |
|
systems (SuSE 8.2, Red Hat 9). If you have had problems |
|
with inconsistent/illogical behaviour of errno, h_errno or the DNS |
|
resolver functions in threaded programs, 20030716 should improve |
|
matters. This snapshot seems stable enough to run OpenOffice.org |
|
1.1rc on Red Hat 7.3, SuSE 8.2 and Red Hat 9, and that's a big |
|
threaded app if ever I saw one. |
|
|
|
- Automatic generation of suppression records; you no longer |
|
need to write them by hand. Use --gen-suppressions=yes. |
|
|
|
- strcpy/memcpy/etc check their arguments for overlaps, when |
|
running with the Memcheck or Addrcheck skins. |
|
|
|
- malloc_usable_size() is now supported. |
|
|
|
- new client requests: |
|
- VALGRIND_COUNT_ERRORS, VALGRIND_COUNT_LEAKS: |
|
useful with regression testing |
|
- VALGRIND_NON_SIMD_CALL[0123]: for running arbitrary functions |
|
on real CPU (use with caution!) |
|
|
|
- The GDB attach mechanism is more flexible. Allow the GDB to |
|
be run to be specified by --gdb-path=/path/to/gdb, and specify |
|
which file descriptor V will read its input from with |
|
--input-fd=<number>. |
|
|
|
- Cachegrind gives more accurate results (wasn't tracking instructions in |
|
malloc() and friends previously, is now). |
|
|
|
- Complete support for the MMX instruction set. |
|
|
|
- Partial support for the SSE and SSE2 instruction sets. Work for this |
|
is ongoing. About half the SSE/SSE2 instructions are done, so |
|
some SSE based programs may work. Currently you need to specify |
|
--skin=addrcheck. Basically not suitable for real use yet. |
|
|
|
- Significant speedups (10%-20%) for standard memory checking. |
|
|
|
- Fix assertion failure in pthread_once(). |
|
|
|
- Fix this: |
|
valgrind: vg_intercept.c:598 (vgAllRoadsLeadToRome_select): |
|
Assertion `ms_end >= ms_now' failed. |
|
|
|
- Implement pthread_mutexattr_setpshared. |
|
|
|
- Understand Pentium 4 branch hints. Also implemented a couple more |
|
obscure x86 instructions. |
|
|
|
- Lots of other minor bug fixes. |
|
|
|
- We have a decent regression test system, for the first time. |
|
This doesn't help you directly, but it does make it a lot easier |
|
for us to track the quality of the system, especially across |
|
multiple linux distributions. |
|
|
|
You can run the regression tests with 'make regtest' after 'make |
|
install' completes. On SuSE 8.2 and Red Hat 9 I get this: |
|
|
|
== 84 tests, 0 stderr failures, 0 stdout failures == |
|
|
|
On Red Hat 8, I get this: |
|
|
|
== 84 tests, 2 stderr failures, 1 stdout failure == |
|
corecheck/tests/res_search (stdout) |
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memcheck/tests/sigaltstack (stderr) |
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sigaltstack is probably harmless. res_search doesn't work |
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on R H 8 even running natively, so I'm not too worried. |
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On Red Hat 7.3, a glibc-2.2.5 system, I get these harmless failures: |
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corecheck/tests/pth_atfork1 (stdout) |
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corecheck/tests/pth_atfork1 (stderr) |
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memcheck/tests/sigaltstack (stderr) |
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You need to run on a PII system, at least, since some tests |
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contain P6-specific instructions, and the test machine needs |
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access to the internet so that corecheck/tests/res_search |
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(a test that the DNS resolver works) can function. |
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As ever, thanks for the vast amount of feedback :) and bug reports :( |
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We may not answer all messages, but we do at least look at all of |
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them, and tend to fix the most frequently reported bugs. |
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Version 1.9.6 (7 May 2003 or thereabouts) |
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Major changes in 1.9.6: |
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- Improved threading support for glibc >= 2.3.2 (SuSE 8.2, |
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RedHat 9, to name but two ...) It turned out that 1.9.5 |
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had problems with threading support on glibc >= 2.3.2, |
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usually manifested by threaded programs deadlocking in system calls, |
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or running unbelievably slowly. Hopefully these are fixed now. 1.9.6 |
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is the first valgrind which gives reasonable support for |
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glibc-2.3.2. Also fixed a 2.3.2 problem with pthread_atfork(). |
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- Majorly expanded FAQ.txt. We've added workarounds for all |
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common problems for which a workaround is known. |
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Minor changes in 1.9.6: |
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- Fix identification of the main thread's stack. Incorrect |
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identification of it was causing some on-stack addresses to not get |
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identified as such. This only affected the usefulness of some error |
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messages; the correctness of the checks made is unchanged. |
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- Support for kernels >= 2.5.68. |
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- Dummy implementations of __libc_current_sigrtmin, |
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__libc_current_sigrtmax and __libc_allocate_rtsig, hopefully |
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good enough to keep alive programs which previously died for lack of |
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them. |
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- Fix bug in the VALGRIND_DISCARD_TRANSLATIONS client request. |
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- Fix bug in the DWARF2 debug line info loader, when instructions |
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following each other have source lines far from each other |
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(e.g. with inlined functions). |
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- Debug info reading: read symbols from both "symtab" and "dynsym" |
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sections, rather than merely from the one that comes last in the |
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file. |
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- New syscall support: prctl(), creat(), lookup_dcookie(). |
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- When checking calls to accept(), recvfrom(), getsocketopt(), |
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don't complain if buffer values are NULL. |
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- Try and avoid assertion failures in |
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mash_LD_PRELOAD_and_LD_LIBRARY_PATH. |
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- Minor bug fixes in cg_annotate. |
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It occurs to me that it would be helpful for valgrind users to record |
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in the source distribution the changes in each release. So I now |
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attempt to mend my errant ways :-) Changes in this and future releases |
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will be documented in the NEWS file in the source distribution. |
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Major changes in 1.9.5: |
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- (Critical bug fix): Fix a bug in the FPU simulation. This was |
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causing some floating point conditional tests not to work right. |
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Several people reported this. If you had floating point code which |
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didn't work right on 1.9.1 to 1.9.4, it's worth trying 1.9.5. |
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- Partial support for Red Hat 9. RH9 uses the new Native Posix |
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Threads Library (NPTL), instead of the older LinuxThreads. |
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This potentially causes problems with V which will take some |
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time to correct. In the meantime we have partially worked around |
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this, and so 1.9.5 works on RH9. Threaded programs still work, |
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but they may deadlock, because some system calls (accept, read, |
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write, etc) which should be nonblocking, in fact do block. This |
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is a known bug which we are looking into. |
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If you can, your best bet (unfortunately) is to avoid using |
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1.9.5 on a Red Hat 9 system, or on any NPTL-based distribution. |
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If your glibc is 2.3.1 or earlier, you're almost certainly OK. |
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Minor changes in 1.9.5: |
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- Added some #errors to valgrind.h to ensure people don't include |
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it accidentally in their sources. This is a change from 1.0.X |
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which was never properly documented. The right thing to include |
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is now memcheck.h. Some people reported problems and strange |
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behaviour when (incorrectly) including valgrind.h in code with |
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1.9.1 -- 1.9.4. This is no longer possible. |
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- Add some __extension__ bits and pieces so that gcc configured |
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for valgrind-checking compiles even with -Werror. If you |
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don't understand this, ignore it. Of interest to gcc developers |
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only. |
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- Removed a pointless check which caused problems interworking |
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with Clearcase. V would complain about shared objects whose |
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names did not end ".so", and refuse to run. This is now fixed. |
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In fact it was fixed in 1.9.4 but not documented. |
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- Fixed a bug causing an assertion failure of "waiters == 1" |
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somewhere in vg_scheduler.c, when running large threaded apps, |
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notably MySQL. |
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- Add support for the munlock system call (124). |
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Some comments about future releases: |
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1.9.5 is, we hope, the most stable Valgrind so far. It pretty much |
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supersedes the 1.0.X branch. If you are a valgrind packager, please |
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consider making 1.9.5 available to your users. You can regard the |
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1.0.X branch as obsolete: 1.9.5 is stable and vastly superior. There |
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are no plans at all for further releases of the 1.0.X branch. |
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If you want a leading-edge valgrind, consider building the cvs head |
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(from SourceForge), or getting a snapshot of it. Current cool stuff |
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going in includes MMX support (done); SSE/SSE2 support (in progress), |
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a significant (10-20%) performance improvement (done), and the usual |
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large collection of minor changes. Hopefully we will be able to |
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improve our NPTL support, but no promises. |
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