valgrind x86-64

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 01:02:39PM -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> > Does anyone know if there are plans to include the AMD64 version of
> > valgrind in rawhide?  I've been using the i386:x86-64 version and it's
> > rather a pain to recompile things for i386 to debug them.
> 
> From: Julian Seward <julian at valgrind.org>
> To: valgrind-developers at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Valgrind-users] Release plan for Valgrind 3.0
> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:27:33 +0100
> 
> Over the past year, a tremendous amount of development effort has
> gone into the Valgrind 3 line.  It now runs on x86 and amd64 quite
> usably, and ppc32 (Linux) is looking promising.
> 	...
> Valgrind-3.0 is already stable and usable on x86 and amd64.
> If you haven't already done so, please checkout and build it
> (easy: see http://www.valgrind.org/devel/cvs_svn.html), ...

  I have been using the svn version 2 weeks ago on x86_64, it did
work, but the check wasn't as complete as on the i386 (it missed
a global variable pointer leak that was found by the same version 
on i386) but this is a very important progress. I think providing
test version for x86_64 is likely to help them iron out the last 
bugs and will help finding x86_64 specific bugs when working. Maybe
making it availble as a test update is the right thing to do at
this point.

Daniel

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