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From: Bryan M. <om...@br...> - 2006-03-05 18:21:09
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Dear Valgrind Developers List, for those interested, you can find a patch against svn here: http://www.brainmurders.eclipse.co.uk/omega_BETA_01.patch.gz This is now BETA software! I can now successfully run kwrite and various other apps in all their glory. Note that this patches VEX in order to sort out an issue I have with popping values off the stack. Still only tested on x86 so far as I am having problems with builds on x86_64. I hope to get to the bottom of this next week sometime but it affects memcheck as well as omega so its something pretty fundamental - valgrind segfaults on startup with a bad memory access to address 0x09. I have updated the docs (small but to the point) so please have a read. For best results, compile your program to be tested with -O0 -g and make sure that memcheck complains about nothing but memory leaks... You might want to pipe the output into a file as there can be rather a lot of it. Note that the --db-attach option is functional so you can attach the debugger just as the leak is about to happen (but note comments about registers in the docs). I really need your feedback on this please. Things that I am extremely keen to hear about are comments on the output - what would be the most useful? General comments are also most welcome so if anyone can spare the time to give this a whizz, please let me know how you get on. Patches are also most welcome along with feature requests. Thanks in advance, Bryan "Brain Murders" Meredith |
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From: Bryan M. <om...@br...> - 2006-03-05 22:36:35
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Dear Valgrind Developers List, Further to my last - 64 bit crash is fixed - download again if you already picked up the patch before 22:15 GMT today. This is now (briefly) tested on x86_64/AMD64 and it works (kwrite runs properly). Anyone out there with 64 bit machines willing to give this a spin, I would love to hear how you get on. thanks in advance, Bryan "Brain Murders" Meredith Bryan Meredith wrote: > Dear Valgrind Developers List, > > Further to my last - 64 bit crash is fixed - download again if you > already picked up the patch before 22:15 GMT today. > > This is now (briefly) tested on x86_64/AMD64 and it works (kwrite runs > properly). > > Anyone out there with 64 bit machines willing to give this a spin, I > would love to hear how you get on. > > thanks in advance, > Bryan "Brain Murders" Meredith > > > Bryan Meredith wrote: >> Dear Valgrind Developers List, >> >> for those interested, you can find a patch against svn here: >> >> http://www.brainmurders.eclipse.co.uk/omega_BETA_01.patch.gz >> >> This is now BETA software! I can now successfully run kwrite and >> various other apps in all their glory. >> >> Note that this patches VEX in order to sort out an issue I have with >> popping values off the stack. >> >> Still only tested on x86 so far as I am having problems with builds on >> x86_64. I hope to get to the bottom of this next week sometime but it >> affects memcheck as well as omega so its something pretty fundamental >> - valgrind segfaults on startup with a bad memory access to address 0x09. >> >> I have updated the docs (small but to the point) so please have a read. >> >> For best results, compile your program to be tested with -O0 -g and >> make sure that memcheck complains about nothing but memory leaks... >> >> You might want to pipe the output into a file as there can be rather a >> lot of it. >> >> Note that the --db-attach option is functional so you can attach the >> debugger just as the leak is about to happen (but note comments about >> registers in the docs). >> >> I really need your feedback on this please. Things that I am extremely >> keen to hear about are comments on the output - what would be the most >> useful? General comments are also most welcome so if anyone can spare >> the time to give this a whizz, please let me know how you get on. >> >> Patches are also most welcome along with feature requests. >> >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Bryan "Brain Murders" Meredith >> > |