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From: Nicholas N. <nj...@cs...> - 2006-02-09 05:37:19
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On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Dennis Lubert wrote: >> The same test passed in valgrind-2.1.0. Since "int" is a common x86 >> instruction, > It isnt common on x86 Linux, and valgrind was written mainly for Linux. > Under Linux only the syscall int 80 is used for anything, and following > the "implementation on demand" policy of valgrind it has not been > implemented. >> it should be supported by valgrind's VEX instruction translation >> layer. > Id disagree. Running your example program should probably segfault > anyways. The only use of int other than 'int 0x80' that I've seen is one JVM used it for generating certain kinds of exceptions (eg. array bounds exceptions). It worked prior to 3.0.0 and would be nice to get working again. Nick |