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From: Maynard J. <may...@us...> - 2010-08-11 20:47:00
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On 08/11/2010 10:38 AM, Maynard Johnson wrote: > On 08/10/2010 2:36 PM, Maynard Johnson wrote: >> Bart Van Assche wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Maynard Johnson<may...@us...> wrote: >>>> >>>> Bart Van Assche wrote: >>>>> 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. >>>>>> > > The attached "version 2" patch fixes the formatting issues that Bart pointed > out, plus a couple other minor nits I found while scrubbing it. This patch was > made against a snapshot of today's SVN repository. But as I mentioned earlier to > Bart, applying the patch will result in an expected failure involving > none/tests/ppc64/jm-insns.c, since this file is symbolically linked to > none/tests/ppc32/jm-insns.c, which is patched earlier on during the patch > application. Just hit "Enter" twice to ignore that failure, and the rest of the > patch should apply cleanly. Another thing I should have mentioned . . . This patch contains some new shell scripts which need to be changed to executable before attempting to run the testsuite. These new script files are: - memcheck/tests/ppc32/filter_stderr - memcheck/tests/ppc64/filter_stderr - none/tests/ppc32/check_vmx_cap - none/tests/ppc64/check_vmx_cap -Maynard > > Thanks. > -Maynard > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > Valgrind-developers mailing list > Val...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-developers |