* Support for IBM z/Architecture (s390x) running Linux. Valgrind can
analyse 64-bit programs running on z/Architecture. Most user space
instructions up to and including z10 are supported.
See README.s390 for more details.
* Support for the IBM Power ISA 2.06 (Power7 instructions)
* Further solidification of support for SSE 4.2 in 64-bit mode
* Memcheck:
* - reduction of memory use in some circumstances
* - improved handling of freed memory for finding more errors
* - fix of a longstanding bug that could cause false negatives
* Helgrind:
* - Helgrind: performance improvements and major memory use reductions
* GDB server: Valgrind now has an embedded GDB server. That means it
is possible to control a Valgrind run from GDB, doing all the usual
things that GDB can do (single stepping, breakpoints, examining
data, etc). Tool-specific functionality is also available.
* Over 160 bugs have been fixed.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:tools/valgrind?expand=0&rev=54
3.6.1 is a bug fix release. It adds support for some SSE4
instructions that were omitted in 3.6.0 due to lack of time. Initial
support for glibc-2.13 has been added. A number of bugs causing
crashing or assertion failures have been fixed.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:tools/valgrind?expand=0&rev=24
3.6.0 is a feature release with many significant improvements and the
usual collection of bug fixes. See the NEWS file for details.
- apparently gcc-32bit does not exist on old code streams, but
it seems to work without it as well
- disable building docs until I find a way to build them without
network access
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:tools/valgrind?expand=0&rev=20
- Valgrind runs much faster when the --smc-check=all option is given.
- Cachegrind has a new processing script, cg_diff, which finds the
difference between two profiles. It's very useful for evaluating the
performance effects of a change in a program.
Related to this change, the meaning of cg_annotate's (rarely-used)
--threshold option has changed; this is unlikely to affect many people, if
you do use it please see the user manual for details.
- Callgrind now can do branch prediction simulation, similar to Cachegrind.
In addition, it optionally can count the number of executed global bus events.
Both can be used for a better approximation of a "Cycle Estimation" as
derived event (you need to update the event formula in KCachegrind yourself).
- Cachegrind and Callgrind now refer to the LL (last-level) cache rather
than the L2 cache. This is to accommodate machines with three levels of
caches -- if Cachegrind/Callgrind auto-detects the cache configuration of
such a machine it will run the simulation as if the L2 cache isn't
present. This means the results are less likely to match the true result
for the machine, but Cachegrind/Callgrind's results are already only
approximate, and 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 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 mmap, brk, etc). Each mapped
page is treated as its own block. Interpreting the page-level output is
harder than the heap-level output, but this option is useful if you want
to account for every byte of memory used by a program.
- Added new memcheck command-line option --show-possibly-lost.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:tools/valgrind?expand=0&rev=17
