Re: [Valgrind-developers] helgrind / stripped libpthread / missing intercepts

[John R. <jr...@bi...>]

>    I've got an environment (linux/ppc64*) with a stripped libpthread.so.

Please tell us about the environment.  All the good Linux distributions
make available the debug symbols for glibc.  You should install the packages
which supply the debug symbols for glibc.  [libpthread.so is part of glibc.]
For instance, on Fedora the package name is glibc-debuginfo; on Debian, libc6-dbg.
You should stop using any distribution that does not supply the debug symbols
for its libraries.  Such a distribution is either incompetent or hostile
to developers.  [If you don't have enough filesystem space for the symbols,
then you have no business complaining.  If you yourself stripped the
symbols, then re-install glibc and debug symbols, and don't strip the symbols.]

> [snip]   so as an experiment I added a hack as seen below, and it seems
> to work for this particular environment.

>  [snip]  Is this safe to do? / the right thing to do?

Safe?  Yes.  The right thing to do?  No.  Install the debug symbols!