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

[Art H. <ah...@ai...>]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 06:20:50PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 16:51, Art Haas wrote:
> > I then tried explicitly adding in a '--tool' option ...
> 
> Yes, memcheck isn't the default any more.
> 
> > $ valgrind --tool=memcheck ls -l
> > Illegal instruction
> 
> Interesting!  What does /proc/cpuinfo say?  Is this an old 486 or 586
> machine?
> 

Yes - Pentium 200 MHz - a dinosaur by today's standards.

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 5
model           : 4
model name      : Pentium MMX
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 199.777
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : yes
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx
bogomips        : 394.24
$

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