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Finalise doc stuff for 3.6.0.

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Release 3.6.0 (18 October 2010)
Release 3.6.0 (21 October 2010)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3.6.0 is a feature release with many significant improvements and the
usual collection of bug fixes.
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* A new experimental heap profiler, DHAT.
* A huge number of bug fixes.
* A huge number of bug fixes and small enhancements.
-------------------------
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64-bit mode. In 32-bit mode, support is only available up to and
including SSSE3. Some exceptions: SSE4.2 AES instructions are not
supported in 64-bit mode, and 32-bit mode does in fact support the
bare minimum SSE4 instructions to needed to run programs on MacOSX
bare minimum SSE4 instructions to needed to run programs on Mac OS X
10.6 on 32-bit targets.
* Support for IBM POWER6 cpus has been improved. The Power ISA up to
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should not be considered authoritative. The results are still
useful for giving a general idea about a program's locality.
- Massif has a new option, --pages-as-heap, which is disabled by
* Massif has a new option, --pages-as-heap, which is disabled by
default. When enabled, instead of tracking allocations at the level
of heap blocks (as allocated with malloc/new/new[]), it instead
tracks memory allocations at the level of memory pages (as mapped by
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pointer implementation.
* Helgrind's annotation set has also been drastically improved, so as
to provide to users, a general set of annotations to describe locks,
to provide to users a general set of annotations to describe locks,
semaphores, barriers and condition variables. Annotations to
describe thread-safe reference counted heap objects have also been
added.
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approximately a factor of 5 as compared with 3.5.0.
* Ability to show directory names for source files in error messages.
This is combined with a flexible mechanism
for specifying which parts of the paths should be shown.
This is enabled by the new flag --fullpath-after.
This is combined with a flexible mechanism for specifying which
parts of the paths should be shown. This is enabled by the new flag
--fullpath-after.
* A new flag, --require-text-symbol, which will stop the run if a
specified symbol is not found it a given shared object when it is
loaded into the process. This makes some advanced working with
function intercepting and wrapping safer and more reliable.
loaded into the process. This makes advanced working with function
intercepting and wrapping safer and more reliable.
* Improved support for the Valkyrie GUI, version 1.6.0. GUI output
and control of Valgrind is now available for the tools Memcheck,
Helgrind and Ptrcheck.
* Improved support for the Valkyrie GUI, version 2.0.0. GUI output
and control of Valgrind is now available for the tools Memcheck and
Helgrind. XML output from Valgrind is available for Memcheck,
Helgrind and exp-Ptrcheck.
* More reliable stack unwinding on amd64-linux, particularly in the
presence of function wrappers, and with gcc-4.5 compiled code.
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250101 huge "free" memory usage due to m_mallocfree.c
"superblocks fragmentation"
251569 vex amd64->IR: 0xF 0x1 0xF9 0x8B 0x4C 0x24 (RDTSCP)
252600 [PATCH] Allow lhs to be a pointer for shl/shr
252091 Callgrind on ARM does not detect function returns correctly
252600 [PATCH] Allow lhs to be a pointer for shl/shr
254420 memory pool tracking broken
n-i-bz support for adding symbols for JIT generated code
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251362 valgrind: ARM: attach to debugger either fails or provokes
kernel oops
251674 Unhandled syscall 294
251818 == 254550
(3.6.0: 18 October 2010, vex rXXXX, valgrind rXXXXX).
254257 Add support for debugfiles found by build-id
254550 [PATCH] Implement DW_ATE_UTF (DWARF4)
254646 Wrapped functions cause stack misalignment on OS X
(and possibly Linux)
254556 ARM: valgrinding anything fails with SIGSEGV for 0xFFFF0FA0
(3.6.0: 21 October 2010, vex rXXXX, valgrind rXXXXX).

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<!-- valgrind release + version stuff -->
<!ENTITY rel-type "Release">
<!ENTITY rel-version "3.6.0">
<!ENTITY rel-date "18 October 2010">
<!ENTITY rel-date "21 October 2010">
<!-- where the docs are installed -->
<!ENTITY vg-docs-path "$INSTALL/share/doc/valgrind/html/index.html">