[Valgrind-developers] drd 2007-02-22

[Bart V. A. <bar...@gm...>]

A new drd version is available at the following location:
http://home.euphonynet.be/bvassche/valgrind/valgrind-6606-drd-2007-02-22.patch.gz

Changes compared to version 2007-01-02:
- Ported drd to AMD64 architecture -- drd now runs both on X86 and
AMD64. More fine-tuning on AMD64 will be necessary however -- there
are some false positives reported on AMD64 that are not reported on
X86.
- Eliminated false positives with regard to signal handling, and added
a regression test.
- Added two new client requests that allow to enable/disable recording
of memory accesses on a per-thread bases. This was needed to suppress
the false positives triggered by pthread_create() (which sets up the
stack for another thread).
- Extended drd's regression test stderr filter, to make regression
tests run more reliably.

Most important known bugs:
- drd is soon killed by the OOM handler when started with bigger clients.
- drd/default.supp has to be installed manually in the installation dir.
- Valgrind option -v triggers a crash after the client program finished
  when drd has reported one or more errors in the client.

-- 
Regards,

Bart Van Assche.