Re: [Valgrind-developers] Valgrind: r14313 - in /trunk: coregrind/ coregrind/m_scheduler/ docs/xml/ helgrind/docs/ helgrind/tests/ none/tests/

[Philippe W. <phi...@sk...>]

On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 08:21 +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Hello Philippe,
> 
> Was it really necessary to add this new sim-hint ? Please note that DRD
> supports the NPTL stack cache - DRD clears all memory references after a
> thread has finished. See also the drd_stop_using_mem() call in
> drd_thread_finished(). The following example shows that this mechanism
> works:
Hello Bart,

Yes, before doing the sim-hint, I first looked at what drd does to avoid
the false positive, but could not easily replicate this in helgrind,
without significant changes.
(I will send the encountered complexities/questions/issues off-list).

Philippe