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From: Julian S. <js...@ac...> - 2006-04-17 19:47:54
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Greetings. It's once again time for the major-release fun 'n' games.
I'm proposing we make a first release candidate on Friday 12 May, with
final release as soon as possible after that, and not later than
Friday 19 Nov, unless something really nasty turns up.
3.2.0 will support {x86,amd64,ppc32,ppc64}-linux. It will contain
the following major changes:
* faster, lighter memcheck; addrcheck is gone
* all-round performance tuning
* ppc64-linux support
* improved floating point accuracy on ppc32/64-linux
* callgrind has been merged in
* function wrapping support, and MPI wrappers
* support for Fedora Core 5 and SuSE 10.1
* Lackey, the example tool, is much improved
* the usual bunch of bug fixes; see docs/internals/3_1_BUGSTATUS.txt
If you are a packager, or if you want to use Valgrind on obscure
setups, please take the time to build and test the trunk on
platforms that are important to you. The ever-growing set of platforms
on which Valgrind runs means that inevitably means that some setups
will not be well tested; nobody has the time to try everything.
I (still) believe the code base is in pretty good shape, and I'm
not aware of any major brokenness at this point.
Closer to the time, I'll trawl through regtest failures on machines I
have access to see if there's anything critical there. It would be
helpful if others could do likewise. Also, trawling the bugzilla
reports for for serious bugs would be helpful.
J
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From: Ashley P. <as...@qu...> - 2006-04-18 13:45:59
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On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 20:47 +0100, Julian Seward wrote:
> 3.2.0 will support {x86,amd64,ppc32,ppc64}-linux. It will contain
> the following major changes:
I've still got a script for merging multiple xml files into one output
file I'm working on, along with some tidyups to the xml output itself,
it would be good to get this merged for the next release.
I need to tidy it up a bit but should be able to submit a patch next
week something, is this OK?
It's a script that loads the memcheck xml output files and translates
them into the normal memcheck output we all know and love. The main use
of it is that it can load many xml input files and create one output
file, using the log-file-qualifier= option to tag errors against
specific input files. It's for use in parallel (MPI) programs where
there may be thousands of individual processes making up a simple
application.
Going along with this are some changes to the xml output to add some
information which is in the normal output but missing from the xml.
Ashley,
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From: Julian S. <js...@ac...> - 2006-04-18 20:23:17
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On Tuesday 18 April 2006 14:45, Ashley Pittman wrote: > > I've still got a script for merging multiple xml files into one output > file I'm working on, along with some tidyups to the xml output itself, > it would be good to get this merged for the next release. > > I need to tidy it up a bit but should be able to submit a patch next > week something, is this OK? That sounds good. Please send it along. J |