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From: Bart V. A. <bva...@ac...> - 2010-08-10 06:53:51
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On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Maynard Johnson <may...@us...>wrote: > Currently, Valgrind has only partial support for new IBM POWER6 > instructions (as defined in > http://www.power.org/resources/reading/PowerISA_V2.05.pdf). The attached > patch completes the 2.05 support. > > The results of running 'make regtest' on a POWER6 box are almost identical > before and after applying this patch -- about 50 failing testcases. I have > looked into many of those failing testcases and, so far, have been able to > cut the number of failures to less than half that. I have a separate > testsuite patch that I will submit separately (upon request, or I'll wait > until this patch is accepted) that provides the improved testsuite results. > > Review comments are welcome. > Which Valgrind version has the patch been developed against ? I have tried to apply the patch to the latest trunk version, but it doesn't seem to apply cleanly: [ ... ] patching file none/tests/ppc64/jm-insns.c Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] Apply anyway? [n] Skipping patch. 2 out of 2 hunks ignored -- saving rejects to file none/tests/ppc64/jm-insns.c.rej [ ... ] Bart. |