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From: Julian S. <js...@ac...> - 2008-12-24 23:40:17
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A release candidate for Valgrind 3.4.0 is available at http://www.valgrind.org/downloads/valgrind-3.4.0.RC1.tar.bz2. Please give it a try on whatever platforms are important for you. Unless any showstopper bugs appear, the final 3.4.0 release will be on 2 January 2009. The NEWS file in the tarball contains a detailed list of changes. Here's a summary: * Memcheck: can now show you the origins of uninitialised values * Helgrind: increased accuracy, scalability, and better error messages * Drd: improved performance, reduced memory use, more functionality * exp-Ptrcheck: a new tool to detect overruns of stack/global arrays * support for latest Linux distros, including gcc-4.4 and glibc-2.9 * frame-level wildcards in suppressions (a frequently requested feature) * Support for the SSSE3 instruction set on x86/amd64 * Many bug fixes As a result of this, the svn trunk is now in a freeze state until the final 3.4.0 release. Please don't commit anything except high priority bug fixes (preferably no commits at all). At the present time I'm aware of one thing in RC1 that needs fixing, which is that the configure script fails to detect pkg-config, and hence Qt4. This only happens with the tarball, not the repo sources, which is usually a sign that a file got left out of the tarball. J |