[Valgrind-developers] valgrind: r8832 - trunk

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Author: sewardj
Date: 2008-12-17 12:26:24 +0000 (Wed, 17 Dec 2008)
New Revision: 8832

Log:
Create rough entries for the 3.4.0 changes.


Modified:
   trunk/NEWS


Modified: trunk/NEWS
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--- trunk/NEWS	2008-12-17 12:25:05 UTC (rev 8831)
+++ trunk/NEWS	2008-12-17 12:26:24 UTC (rev 8832)
@@ -1,11 +1,41 @@
 
 Release 3.4.0 (???)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Changes include:
-- SSE3 insns now supported.  Changed CPUID output to be Core-2, so now it
+
+Main change points (need to add details for all)
+
+- Origin tracking in Memcheck
+
+- Helgrind completely rewritten, to remove false error and scaling
+problems and to give improved diagnostics
+
+- Drd majorly improved (details ..)
+
+- New tool: exp-ptrcheck, for doing checks on stack and global arrays
+
+- gcc-4.4.0 support, including demangler fixes for recent g++'s
+
+- new distro support: OpenSUSE 11.1, Fedora 10, Ubuntu 8.10
+
+- Frame level wildcarding in suppressions
+
+- Basic support for IBM Power6 (64-bit processes only)
+
+- SSSE3 insns now supported.  Changed CPUID output to be Core-2, so now it
   claims to be a Core 2 E6600.
 
+- cross-compilation support
 
+- many bugs fixed, as usual
+
+- non-user-visible: able to read Dwarf3 type/variable information,
+  so as to understand the location and type of stack and local variables
+
+- matching release of Valkyrie, (a GUI for Memcheck), v 1.4.0
+
+- what else?
+
+
 Release 3.3.1 (4 June 2008)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 3.3.1 fixes a bunch of bugs in 3.3.0, adds support for glibc-2.8 based