From: Nicholas N. <nj...@cs...> - 2008-02-29 09:05:09
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Bart Van Assche wrote: > [ Just subscribed to the valgrind-users mailing list ] > > Regarding DRD and linuxthreads: of course DRD should compile with the > linuxthreads header files. The compilation issue should be fixed by > this time (can't retest that right now). > > Currently neither DRD nor Helgrind work reasonably with linuxthreads. > Both tools can be ported to linuxthreads, but this would take > considerable work (at least for DRD). Is it worth just aborting immediately, with a message "sorry, DRD doesn't work on LinuxThreads matches". If it doesn't work "reasonably", don't try to work at all -- otherwise people may try it, not realise that it doesn't work well with LinuxThreads, and conclude (erroneously) that it's no good. N |