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From: Nicholas N. <n.n...@gm...> - 2009-06-08 11:41:52
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On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Bart Van Assche<bar...@gm...> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:20 AM, <sv...@va...> wrote: >> Author: njn >> Date: 2009-06-03 00:20:40 +0100 (Wed, 03 Jun 2009) >> New Revision: 10215 >> >> Log: >> Add descriptions of DRD and Ptrcheck in the manual intro. Bart, Julian, >> please change these if you don't like what I've written, and merge the >> changes to the 3.4.X branch. > > Thanks for updating the introduction of the manual. Regarding DRD and > Helgrind: any user reading the manual will wonder why there are two > thread checking tools. I had already been considering to add a table > to the chapter about DRD that lists the numerous small differences > between DRD and Helgrind. I'm not sure whether the introduction is the > right place to list these differences. A brief summary would be appropriate -- "slower but no false positives" or similar (I'm not sure if that's an accurate description, just an example). Nick |