[Valgrind-announce] Valgrind-3.4.1 is available

[Julian S. <js...@ac...>]

We are pleased to announce a new release of Valgrind, version 3.4.1,
available from http://www.valgrind.org.  See the attached release
notes for details.

Happy (and productive) debugging and profiling,

-- The Valgrind Developers


Release 3.4.1 (28 February 2009)
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3.4.1 is a bug-fix release that fixes some regressions and assertion
failures in debug info reading in 3.4.0, most notably incorrect stack
traces on amd64-linux on older (glibc-2.3 based) systems. Various
other debug info problems are also fixed.  A number of bugs in the
exp-ptrcheck tool introduced in 3.4.0 have been fixed.

In view of the fact that 3.4.0 contains user-visible regressions
relative to 3.3.x, upgrading to 3.4.1 is recommended.  Packagers are
encouraged to ship 3.4.1 in preference to 3.4.0.

The fixed bugs are as follows.  Note that "n-i-bz" stands for "not in
bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us but never got a
bugzilla entry.  We encourage you to file bugs in bugzilla
(http://bugs.kde.org/enter_valgrind_bug.cgi) rather than mailing the
developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that are not entered
into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.

n-i-bz  Fix various bugs reading icc-11 generated debug info
n-i-bz  Fix various bugs reading gcc-4.4 generated debug info
n-i-bz  Preliminary support for glibc-2.10 / Fedora 11
n-i-bz  Cachegrind and Callgrind: handle non-power-of-two cache sizes,
        so as to support (eg) 24k Atom D1 and Core2 with 3/6/12MB L2.
179618  exp-ptrcheck crashed / exit prematurely
179624  helgrind: false positive races with pthread_create and
        recv/open/close/read
134207  pkg-config output contains @VG_PLATFORM@
176926  floating point exception at valgrind startup with PPC 440EPX
181594  Bogus warning for empty text segment
173751  amd64->IR: 0x48 0xF 0x6F 0x45 (even more redundant rex prefixes)
181707  Dwarf3 doesn't require enumerations to have name
185038  exp-ptrcheck: "unhandled syscall: 285" (fallocate) on x86_64
185050  exp-ptrcheck: sg_main.c:727 (add_block_to_GlobalTree):
        Assertion '!already_present' failed.
185359  exp-ptrcheck unhandled syscall getresuid()