Re: [Valgrind-developers] valgrind/coregrind

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

In message <200...@ac...>
          Julian Seward <js...@ac...> wrote:

> I suspect a couple of hours figuring this out might sort it,
> partly because it's fairly well abstracted, partly because there's
> a good sanity checker, and partly because there's a standalone
> test driver at the bottom of the file.  And given that we are
> headed inevitably to 64bit-ville, it's necessary anyway.

On that point, anybody planning to attack this should check what
alignment glibc uses on x86-64 as it have to return 16 byte aligned
pointers due to the use of SSE for floating point values. It would
be a bit silly to rework it for 8 buyte alignment and then find we
need 16 byte alignment ;-)

Tom

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