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

[Julian S. <js...@ac...>]

Yes, irred was a good test case, and shook out various bugs and
missing insns.  I now believe the head should run most MMX code OK,
and I've taught the memcheck (default) skin how to instrument MMX
code, so "valgrind ./my_mmx_program" should work.

J

On Thursday 27 March 2003 11:59 am, Arnaud Desitter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I do not have much time as the moment to test it myself
> but Richard Brent's irred should be a good test case, small
> and simple.
> http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/richard.brent/irred.html
>
> Regards,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julian Seward" <js...@ac...>
> To: <val...@li...>;
> <val...@li...>
> Cc: <os...@kd...>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 9:30 PM
> Subject: [Valgrind-users] Need testers for MMX support
>
> > 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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