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From: <sv...@va...> - 2009-06-04 22:47:25
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Author: njn
Date: 2009-06-04 23:47:21 +0100 (Thu, 04 Jun 2009)
New Revision: 10246
Log:
NEWS updates.
Modified:
trunk/NEWS
Modified: trunk/NEWS
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--- trunk/NEWS 2009-06-04 11:46:32 UTC (rev 10245)
+++ trunk/NEWS 2009-06-04 22:47:21 UTC (rev 10246)
@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
Release 3.5.0 (???)
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-* XXX: Mac OS X support
- - x86/Darwin.
- - probably amd64/Darwin.
- - Requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or later.
- - No support for Mac OS X on PowerPC machines.
- - Many thanks to Greg Parker for developing this port over several years.
+* Mac OS X is now supported. (Note that Mac OS X is often called "Darwin"
+ because that is the name of the OS core.)
- Things that don't work
+ Supported machines:
+ - x86 machines are supported fairly well.
+ - AMD64 (a.k.a. x86-64) are supported, but not as well.
+ - Older PowerPC machines are not supported.
+ - It requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or later. Porting to 10.4 is not
+ planned because it would require work and 10.4 is only becoming less common.
+
+ Things that don't work:
- Objective-C garbage collection
- --db-attach=yes
- Messages like the following indicate a mismatch between Valgrind's
@@ -16,7 +19,15 @@
multithreaded programs. If the failure repeats for the same address
range, then there may be a problem causing false errors or crashes.
sync check at ...: FAILED
+ - If you have Rogue Amoeba's "Instant Hijack" program installed, Valgrind
+ will fail with a SIGTRAP at start-up. This is apparently Instant
+ Hijack's fault. See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193917 for
+ details and a simple work-around.
+ Many thanks to Greg Parker for developing this port over several years.
+
+* XXX: something about improved Wine support?
+
* A new Memcheck client request VALGRIND_COUNT_LEAK_BLOCKS has been added.
It is similar to VALGRIND_COUNT_LEAKS but counts blocks instead of bytes.
[XXX: consider adding VALGRIND_COUNT_LEAK_BYTES as a synonym and
@@ -54,6 +65,8 @@
Stack traces produced when --xml=yes is specified are different and
unchanged.
+* XXX: XML output has changed...
+
* The graphs drawn by Massif's ms_print program have changed slightly:
- The half-height chars '.' and ',' are no longer drawn, because they are
confusing. The --y option can be used if the default y-resolution is
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