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From: Nicholas N. <nj...@cs...> - 2005-07-19 18:37:19
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On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Dennis Lubert wrote: > I personally used helgrind in the "old days" quite often. Although it gave > tons of (more or less) false positives (sometimes program flow does prevent > concurrent access which cant be detected by helgrind of course) it was really > very useful and I found many bugs. This is good to know... very few others have said things like this which is why Helgrind has always been a lower priority thing. Generally, feedback indicates to us that people really hate false positives, and Helgrind's high number of them is a big problem for most people. > I check rather often if something is done at the helgrind front since there > is no similar free tool. I think a big problem why not many people use > helgrind is because they know valgrind as "memory overflow, leak check and > uninitialized value detection tool" but not as the powerful framework for > many other tools (massif is of great use sometimes too) that it actually is. > Perhaps more advertising other feature tools of valgrind will increase > knowledge and thus usage too. Perhaps the next survey should include (if the > old didnt already) a "have you heard about tool xxx previously" question > before asking fo its usage... Maybe a brief description of each one in the usage question would be useful. N |