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From: <sv...@va...> - 2008-12-17 12:26:28
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Author: sewardj Date: 2008-12-17 12:26:24 +0000 (Wed, 17 Dec 2008) New Revision: 8832 Log: Create rough entries for the 3.4.0 changes. Modified: trunk/NEWS Modified: trunk/NEWS =================================================================== --- trunk/NEWS 2008-12-17 12:25:05 UTC (rev 8831) +++ trunk/NEWS 2008-12-17 12:26:24 UTC (rev 8832) @@ -1,11 +1,41 @@ Release 3.4.0 (???) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Changes include: -- SSE3 insns now supported. Changed CPUID output to be Core-2, so now it + +Main change points (need to add details for all) + +- Origin tracking in Memcheck + +- Helgrind completely rewritten, to remove false error and scaling +problems and to give improved diagnostics + +- Drd majorly improved (details ..) + +- New tool: exp-ptrcheck, for doing checks on stack and global arrays + +- gcc-4.4.0 support, including demangler fixes for recent g++'s + +- new distro support: OpenSUSE 11.1, Fedora 10, Ubuntu 8.10 + +- Frame level wildcarding in suppressions + +- Basic support for IBM Power6 (64-bit processes only) + +- SSSE3 insns now supported. Changed CPUID output to be Core-2, so now it claims to be a Core 2 E6600. +- cross-compilation support +- many bugs fixed, as usual + +- non-user-visible: able to read Dwarf3 type/variable information, + so as to understand the location and type of stack and local variables + +- matching release of Valkyrie, (a GUI for Memcheck), v 1.4.0 + +- what else? + + Release 3.3.1 (4 June 2008) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3.3.1 fixes a bunch of bugs in 3.3.0, adds support for glibc-2.8 based |