Re: [Valgrind-developers] Re: valgrind/coregrind

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

On Sunday 25 January 2004 13:17, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Sunday 25 January 2004 04:07, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > Well, exactly that.  We're so far from being like the underlying CPU,
> > there's no point in pretending it is actually the underlying CPU.
>
> Well, I disagree. Besides timing, we're pretty much like the underlying
> CPU. I think its important that the application, no matter if I wrote it or
> not, and if I have the sources or not,runs just the very same code it would
> run without valgrind as well. Otherwise trying to debug failures becomes
> pretty much mood.

I think a case can be made for both points of view.  However, it
seems to me that Jeremy's approach is reasonable enough -- in fact
I quite like the sound of it.  If we get a lot of people complaining,
we can always back it out and/or modify it.

> What do you gain by breaking code which you don't have the sources of (like
> for example the nvidia dri stuff) ?

Be specific -- what problem(s) is this change giving you?
Obviously we want V to work for as many people as possible, and
for that we need specifics.

J