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From: Joerg W. <wa...@it...> - 2009-02-17 10:10:03
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Hello, reading from the manual I see that atomic instructions (like lock inc, etc. on x86) are not supported by valgrind in the sense of being emulated in a correct way. What is the technical reason for this? Are there any plans to correctly handle these instructions? What is the technical difference between handling these and handling pthread's mutexes? Can't valgrind put something like fake mutexes 'around' these atomic variables whenever such an operation is used? Thanks for some insights here, regards! Joerg |