Re: [Valgrind-developers] interesting result

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

On Tuesday 29 October 2002 8:52 pm, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> I finally got around to implementing the thread lifetime segment (TLS)
> algorithm described in "Runtime Checking of Multithreaded Applications
> with Visual Threads".  The results are interesting.
>
> For small test programs, the algorithm is clearly working, and it helps
> in reducing spurious warnings.

Great.


> -4265 possible data races found; 0 lock order problems
> +4335 possible data races found; 0 lock order problems
>
> I don't know if this is because there's fewer spurious errors and more
> real errors, or whether deferring some early spurious errors allows many
> more to appear later.

Um, /me is pleased this is progressing, but I don't have any insights to
add here.  Sorry.

J