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From: Nicholas N. <nj...@ca...> - 2004-02-11 22:34:49
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Ayodele Thomas wrote: > I am having problems running out of the 2GB space allocated to valgrind > internally (using VG_(malloc) etc.) because my skin keeps track of a > tremendous amount of state. We are considering purchasing a an Opteron > box with Linux. The question is, would the change from 32-bit to 64-bit > Linux be a relatively easy change for Valgrind, or will it require > significant rewrites. Significant rewrites. Apart from the new instructions, one big issue is that Valgrind assumes 4-byte pointers in many places, unfortunately. It might be possible to run 32-bit code on an Opteron -- but I'm not sure about that -- but that probably won't help you. N |