--fill-free=<hexnumber>, which cause malloc'd(etc) and free'd(etc)
blocks to be filled with the specified value. This can apparently be
useful for shaking out hard-to-track-down memory corruption. The
definedness/addressability of said areas is not affected -- only the
contents. Documentation to follow.
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any wierdness on very large machines in the future. Also, double the
default size from 5MB to 10MB, on the basis that programs are now on
average twice as lardy as they were when it was set to 5MB, whenever
that was.
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* add a few more syscall wrappers, and fix a couple of buggy ones
* intercept strcmp et al in a few more libraries
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* Don't intercept putenv/getenv/setenv. Causes a lot of whinging
about missing TOC pointers.
* Add 'strcmp' to the bundle of 4 functions intercepted in all
objects.
* xlc now seems to route calls through to malloc_common, free_common,
calloc_common, realloc_common, memalign_common in libc. Intercept
those names too.
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somewhat to move less relevant material out of the way to some extent.
The main changes are:
* Update date and version info
* Mention other tools in the quick-start guide
* Document --child-silent-after-fork
* Rearrange order of sections in the Valgrind Core chapter, to move
advanced stuff (client requests) to the end, and compact stuff
relevant to the majority of users towards the front
* Move MPI debugging stuff from the Core manual (a nonsensical place
for it) to the Memcheck chapter
* Update the manual's introductory chapter a bit
* Connect up new tech docs summary page, and disconnect old and
very out of date valgrind/memcheck tech docs
* Add section tags to the Cachegrind manual, to stop xsltproc
complaining about their absence
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kludges^H^H^H^H^H^H^Henhancements:
r6802: For VG_(record_ExeContext) et al, add a new parameter
(first_ip_delta) which is added to the initial IP value before the
stack is unwound. A safe value to pass is zero, which causes the
existing behaviour to be unchanged. This is a kludge needed to work
around the incomplete amd64 stack unwind info in glibc-2.5's clone()
routine.
r7059: Add a last-ditch heuristic-hack to the amd64-linux stack
unwinder, which is used when all other methods fail. Seems like GDB
has something similar.
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interface and provides full power; and "OSetWord_", which is an
easier-to-use interface for if you just want to store words.
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Another optimisation: allow tools to provide a final_tidy function
which they can use to mess with the final post-tree-built IR before it
is handed off to instruction selection.
In memcheck, use this to remove redundant calls to
MC_(helperc_value_check0_fail) et al. Gives a 6% reduction in code
size for Memcheck on x86 and a smaller (3% ?) speedup.
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r6736:
Hook up Memcheck to the new Left and CmpwNEZ primops defined in vex r1769.
r6737:
Track vex r1770 (removal of Iop_Neg64/32/16/8 primops)
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Allow hashtables to dynamically resize (patch from Christoph
Bartoschek). Results in the following interface changes:
* HT_construct: no need to supply an initial table size.
Instead, supply a text string used to "name" the table, so
that debugging messages ("resizing the table") can say which
one they are resizing.
* Remove VG_(HT_get_node). This exposes the chain structure to
callers (via the next_ptr parameter), which is a problem since
callers could get some info about the chain structure which then
changes when the table is resized. Fortunately is not used.
* Remove VG_(HT_first_match) and VG_(HT_apply_to_all_nodes) as
they are unused.
* Make the iteration mechanism more paranoid, so any adding or
deleting of nodes part way through an iteration causes VG_(HT_next)
to assert.
* Fix the comment on VG_(HT_to_array) so it no longer speaks
specifically about MC's leak detector.
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allocated, rather than SizeT which is word-sized. Your average C++
lardware can easily turn over more than 4G in total in a half hour run
on a 32-bit machine, in which case the counter wraps around.
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strings in 16-bit chunks, which can cause false errors in some cases
(sigh). So do the usual thing and replace it.
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mempcpy which is called from printf does not mess up the
carefully-balanced call-stack overflow checks that this test does on
ppc64-linux.
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reasons: it reads word-sized chunks from memory and so produces lots
of errors in SuSE 10.2 (amd64).
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