Re: [Valgrind-users] Memory allocation errors starting valgrind

[Tom H. <th...@cy...>]

In message <200...@ar...>
          "Art Haas" <ah...@ai...> wrote:

> I then tried explicitly adding in a '--tool' option ...
> 
> $ valgrind --tool=memcheck ls -l
> Illegal instruction
> $

Was it an a machine with an old, pre SSE CPU? If so then this is the
bug I reported yesterday where valgrind now always thinks you have SSE
support and tries to save the SSE state.

Tom

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