Re: [Valgrind-users] Need testers for MMX support

[Crispin F. <cr...@th...>]

Hmm, if I use automake 1.6 it compiles and works fine :)

I have tested the MMX instructions using the 'none' skin, and they work
fine (our code uses the MMX1, MMX2_MEMWr and MMX2_MemRd instructions).

Cheers

Crispin





On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 10:38, Crispin Flowerday wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had a bit of a problem getting it to compile, I got:
> 
> make[1]: Entering directory `/space/crispin/valgrind/coregrind'
> gcc   -DVG_LIBDIR="\"/opt/valgrind/lib"\"   -Winline -Wall -Wshadow -O
> -fomit-frame-pointer -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -g -c `test -f
> vg_dispatch.S || echo './'`vg_dispatch.S
> In file included from vg_dispatch.S:32:
> vg_constants.h:35:31: vg_constants_skin.h: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [vg_dispatch.o] Error 1
> 
> 
> so I added $(INCLUDES) into the CFLAGS line in the makefile, not quite
> sure what was happening there.
> 
> Anyway, I got it compiled, however every program I ran (including 'ls')
> aborted with the following error:
> 
> Instruction failed sanity check:
>            2: CALLML    q0              [abcdSD]
> opcode:          54
> lit32:           0x0
> size:            4
> val1,val2,val3:  1, 0, 0
> tag1,tag2,tag3:  0, 7, 7
> flags_r:         0x0
> flags_w:         0x0
> extra4b:         0x0
> cond:            0x0
> signed_widen:    0
> jmpkind:         0
> argc,regparms_n: 0, 0
> has_ret_val:     0
> regs_live_after: [abcdSD]
> 
> valgrind: vg_translate.c:628 (vgPlain_saneUCodeBlock): Assertion `sane'
> failed.
> 
> 
> Could that be related to the compile problem?
> 
> Crispin
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 21:30, Julian Seward wrote:
> > Greetings, y'all.
> > 
> > I just committed to the cvs head, initial support for MMX instructions.
> > Just MMX, not SSE or SSE2.  SSE and SSE2 are for later; a staged approach
> > keeps the resulting code simpler and more maintainable (I hope).
> > 
> > Most MMX instructions now work.  What would be very useful is for
> > people who have apps with MMX instructions, to check out and build the
> > head [details below] and then run their MMXish apps on it.  There will 
> > be initial breakage, but the sooner this is done, the sooner we will 
> > have working MMX support :-)
> > 
> > So, can anyone help out?
> > 
> > If this all works out satisfactorily, I will seriously consider backporting
> > it to the stable branch (the >= 1.9.4 series).
> > 
> > J
> > 
> > 
> > Building from anon cvs:
> > You need autoconf >= 1.5.  Apart from that it should be easy.
> > 
> > Here's how:
> > 
> > cvs -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/valgrind login
> > 
> > When prompted for a password for anonymous, simply press the Enter key.
> > 
> > cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/valgrind 
> >           co valgrind
> > 
> > cd valgrind
> > ./autogen.sh
> > ./configure --prefix=....
> > make
> > make install
> > 
> > 
> > 
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