Re: [Valgrind-developers] lazy eflags seems to work now

[Jeremy F. <je...@go...>]

On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:15, Julian Seward wrote:

> I just tried 01- and 61- and 62- and things run faster.  bzip2,
> xedit, kate work.
> 
> However OO 1.0.1 no longer starts up.  You know when you start it, there
> is a splash screen, which sits above all other windows.  If I now run it 
> with --skin=none --trace-children=yes, the same patch of screen behaves 
> as if it is the splash screen, except that the picture of the bluish sky
> with the stylised birds does not appear -- that rectangle of screen contains
> whatever was there before.
> 
> Does that make any sense?  Can you repro it?

Well, I fiddled about a bit, and the symptom has gone away, without any
obvious changes on my part.  The only significant thing I remember doing
was fixing a bug in 61-special-d which flipped the state of D over a
context switch (ie, when the dispatch counter dropped to 0).  But when I
could reproduce it, it was only with 62 in place - it worked with the
buggy 61.  Interestingly, I can still repro it with 63-chained-indirect
in place, even though that works for everything else (and when that
patch has bugs, they're rarely subtle).

So I'm somewhat confused.  I wonder if its a timing/race problem in OO
itself, which we're sometimes hitting and sometimes not?

Anyway, tell me what you get with the current versions of 61 and 62.

        J