For example, options below are silently "accepted"+ignored:
valgrind --profile-heaps=yes --max-stackframes=35 memcheck/tests/trivialleak
valgrind --profile-heaps=oui --max-stackframes=3.141592654 memcheck/tests/trivialleak
Also fixed the on-line --help output for option --core-redzone-size
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Option sp-at-mem-access can be used by tools which do not
need an up to date BP and IP at each mem access.
It is needed however to have SP up to date at each memory
access, as an up to date SP is needed to grow the stack in
m_signals.c
Tools massif, cachegrind and callgrind are using sp-at-mem-access
as default.
None tool could also use sp-at-mem-access but default is kept
to unwindregs-at-mem-access (similar to memcheck, drd, helgrind, exp-sgcheck).
exp-dhat, exp-bbv, lackey have not been looked at to see if they
could make use of sp-at-mem-access.
Validated on x86, amd64, ppc64 and s390x.
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* Option --vex-iropt-precise-memory-exns has been removed.
It is replaced by --vex-iropt-register-updates which accepts
3 values : 'unwindregs-at-mem-access' (replacing
--vex-iropt-precise-memory-exns=no), 'allregs-at-mem-access'
(replacing --vex-iropt-precise-memory-exns=yes)
and a new value 'allregs-at-each-insn'.
'allregs-at-each-insn' allows the Valgrind gdbserver to always
show up to date values to GDB.
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* For tools replacing the malloc library (e.g. Memcheck, Helgrind, ...),
the option --redzone-size=<number> allows to control the padding
blocks (redzones) added before and after each client allocated block.
Smaller redzones decrease the memory needed by Valgrind. Bigger
redzones increase the chance to detect blocks overrun or underrun.
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* pub_tool_redir.h : define the prefix to be used for "soname synonym"
place holder
* vg_replace_malloc.c : define synonym place holder for malloc related
functions
* m_redir.c : when detecting a soname synonym place holder redir spec, search
in clo_soname_synonyms if there is a synonym pattern.
If yes, replace the soname pattern. If not, ignore the redir spec.
* various files: implement or document the new clo --soname-synonyms
* new test memcheck/tests/static_malloc.vgtest
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a bunch of file-related syscalls to be handled on the might-block
syscall path rather than the fast syscall path. This fixes deadlocks
when running some FUSE-specific filesystem codes. Fixes#278057.
(Mike Shal, marfey@gmail.com)
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--vgdb-error=N is specified, print a bit of text telling the user the
magic commands to give GDB in order to attach to the process.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11822
adds self-modifying-code checks to all guest code taken from mappings
which are not file backed, but omits checks in code from file backed
mappings. This has the effect of giving complete smc-coverage of JIT
generated code -- since that is invariably generated into anonymous
mapped areas -- without burdening non-JIT generated code with such
checks. Running Firefox 6, --smc-check=all-non-file reduces by a
factor of between 3 and 10 the number of translations requiring a self
check, compared to --smc-check=all. These changes depend on the vex
interface changes in r2158.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11798
chase/nochase decisions for child processes to be made on the basis
of their argv[] entries rather than on the name of their executables.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11483
behave more like the original proposal in #245535. This makes it
more flexible and general. Also rename it.
* new name is --fullpath-after=
* allow multiple instances of --fullpath-after=
* don't require the specified strings to be prefixes, only substrings
But retain the elegant backwards-compatibility trick in Bart's r11312
commit: if --fullpath-after= is not specified at all, then behave
exactly as before.
Fixes#245535. A mixture of patches from Bart Van Assche
(bart.vanassche@gmail.com), Alexander Potapenko (glider@google.com),
and me (integration and documentation).
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11430
messages now begin with "valgrind: ", and they're more often printed before
the preamble. This required introducing a new message kind, Vg_FailMsg, and
functions VG_(fmsg) and VG_(fmsg_bad_option), and removing
VG_(err_bad_option).
Where we used to have horrible output like this:
[ocean:~/grind/ws2] vg5 --tool=massif --threshold=101 date
==31877== Massif, a heap profiler
==31877== Copyright (C) 2003-2010, and GNU GPL'd, by Nicholas Nethercote
==31877== Using Valgrind-3.6.0.SVN and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==31877== Command: date
==31877==
==31877== --threshold must be between 0.0 and 100.0
valgrind: Bad option '--threshold'; aborting.
valgrind: Use --help for more information.
We now have nice output like this:
[ocean:~/grind/ws2] vg2 --tool=massif --threshold=101 date
valgrind: Bad option: --threshold=101
valgrind: --threshold must be between 0.0 and 100.0
valgrind: Use --help for more information or consult the user manual.
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that specified shared objects contain specified symbols. Along with a
couple of regtests that unfortunately will fail on MacOSX.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11125
whether front ends should speculatively chase through conditional
branches. Disabled by default.
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Specifies a comma-separated list of executable-names
(with "*" and "?" wildcards allowed) that should not be traced into
even when --trace-children=yes. Modified version of a patch
from Bill Hoffman. Fixes#148932.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10927
* For all tools and the core, don't show statistics when -v is in
effect. Instead, try to restrict -v to mostly user-useful
stuff.
* A new flag --stats=no|yes [no] produces statistics output instead.
* Fix longstanding problem in that Memcheck's leak checker ran after
the core's error manager module shut down, thereby not showing use
counts of leak suppressions. This fixes#186790.
* As a consequence, the leak checker text output of Memcheck has
changed a bit -- leak check is done before the final error
summary is done (much more logical), and the output has been
tidied up a bit.
* Helgrind, Drd and Ptrcheck now also print "For counts of
detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v", which makes
them consistent with Memcheck in this regard. These are
filtered out by the regtest filter scripts.
For all tools except Memcheck, the regtests are unchanged. On
Memcheck regtests still fail due to rearrangements of the leak
checker output. This will be fixed by a followup commit.
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- Match the ordering of the non-tool-specific options in the usage message
with the order in the user manual. As a result, we now always print
--alignment and --trace-malloc in the core's usage messages, which saves
malloc-replacing tools from doing it themselves (and brings it in line
with options that only apply to error-collecting tools).
- Improved the presentation of the Vex options with --help-debug.
- Removed documentation of -d in the manual because it's a debugging-only flag.
- Documented --read-var-info in the manual. This fixes bug 201169.
- Renamed --auto-run-dsymutil as --dsymutil and documented it in the usage
message.
- Fixed an XML error in manual-core-adv.xml.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10703
- There were detailed descriptions of all the tools in the Quick Start
Guide, the Manual introduction, and the start of each tool chapter. To
avoid duplication/overlap, I removed these altogether from the Quick Start
Guide, and shortened them in the intro.
- Improved the description of what errors Memcheck can find.
- Made all tool chapters start with "Overview" section, for consistency.
- Made the "run with --tool=XXX" bit consistent in each tool chapter.
- Made all tool chapter titles match the description given when running them.
- Added BBV to the User Manual intro.
- Generally clarified, updated, and future-proofed various bits of text in
the Quick Start Guide and User Manual introduction.
Also:
- Changed Nulgrind's start-up description to "the minimal Valgrind tool".
- Fixed some punctuation in the usage message.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10652
stacks. Instead of hardwiring the main thread stack to a max of 16MB
and segfaulting the app beyond that point, allow the user to specify
the main stack size using the new flag --main-stacksize=<number>.
If said flag is not present, the current default, which is "MIN(16GB,
current ulimit -s value)", is used.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7302
branch hereby becomes inactive. This currently breaks everything
except x86; fixes for amd64/ppc32 to follow.
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