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      1 Release 3.13.0 (15 June 2017)
      2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      3 
      4 3.13.0 is a feature release with many improvements and the usual collection of
      5 bug fixes.
      6 
      7 This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM32/Linux, ARM64/Linux,
      8 PPC32/Linux, PPC64BE/Linux, PPC64LE/Linux, S390X/Linux, MIPS32/Linux,
      9 MIPS64/Linux, ARM/Android, ARM64/Android, MIPS32/Android, X86/Android,
     10 X86/Solaris, AMD64/Solaris and AMD64/MacOSX 10.12.
     11 
     12 * ==================== CORE CHANGES ===================
     13 
     14 * The translation cache size has been increased to keep up with the demands of
     15   large applications.  The maximum number of sectors has increased from 24 to
     16   48.  The default number of sectors has increased from 16 to 32 on all
     17   targets except Android, where the increase is from 6 to 12.
     18 
     19 * The amount of memory that Valgrind can use has been increased from 64GB to
     20   128GB.  In particular this means your application can allocate up to about
     21   60GB when running on Memcheck.
     22 
     23 * Valgrind's default load address has been changed from 0x3800'0000 to
     24   0x5800'0000, so as to make it possible to load larger executables.  This
     25   should make it possible to load executables of size at least 1200MB.
     26 
     27 * A massive spaceleak caused by reading compressed debuginfo files has been
     28   fixed.  Valgrind should now be entirely usable with gcc-7.0 "-gz" created
     29   debuginfo.
     30 
     31 * The C++ demangler has been updated.
     32 
     33 * Support for demangling Rust symbols has been added.
     34 
     35 * A new representation of stack traces, the "XTree", has been added.  An XTree
     36   is a tree of stacktraces with data associated with the stacktraces.  This is
     37   used by various tools (Memcheck, Helgrind, Massif) to report on the heap
     38   consumption of your program.  Reporting is controlled by the new options
     39   --xtree-memory=none|allocs|full and --xtree-memory-file=<file>.
     40 
     41   A report can also be produced on demand using the gdbserver monitor command
     42   'xtmemory [<filename>]>'.  The XTree can be output in 2 formats: 'callgrind
     43   format' and 'massif format. The existing visualisers for these formats (e.g.
     44   callgrind_annotate, KCachegrind, ms_print) can be used to visualise and
     45   analyse these reports.
     46 
     47   Memcheck can also produce XTree leak reports using the Callgrind file
     48   format.  For more details, see the user manual.
     49 
     50 * ================== PLATFORM CHANGES =================
     51 
     52 * ppc64: support for ISA 3.0B and various fixes for existing 3.0 support
     53 
     54 * amd64: fixes for JIT failure problems on long AVX2 code blocks
     55 
     56 * amd64 and x86: support for CET prefixes has been added
     57 
     58 * arm32: a few missing ARMv8 instructions have been implemented
     59 
     60 * arm64, mips64, mips32: an alternative implementation of Load-Linked and
     61   Store-Conditional instructions has been added.  This is to deal with
     62   processor implementations that implement the LL/SC specifications strictly
     63   and as a result cause Valgrind to hang in certain situations.  The
     64   alternative implementation is automatically enabled at startup, as required.
     65   You can use the option --sim-hints=fallback-llsc to force-enable it if you
     66   want.
     67 
     68 * Support for OSX 10.12 has been improved.
     69 
     70 * On Linux, clone handling has been improved to honour CLONE_VFORK that
     71   involves a child stack.  Note however that CLONE_VFORK | CLONE_VM is handled
     72   like CLONE_VFORK (by removing CLONE_VM), so applications that depend on
     73   CLONE_VM exact semantics will (still) not work.
     74 
     75 * The TileGX/Linux port has been removed because it appears to be both unused
     76   and unsupported.
     77 
     78 * ==================== TOOL CHANGES ====================
     79 
     80 * Memcheck:
     81 
     82   - Memcheck should give fewer false positives when running optimised
     83     Clang/LLVM generated code.
     84 
     85   - Support for --xtree-memory and 'xtmemory [<filename>]>'.
     86 
     87   - New command line options --xtree-leak=no|yes and --xtree-leak-file=<file>
     88     to produce the end of execution leak report in a xtree callgrind format
     89     file.
     90 
     91   - New option 'xtleak' in the memcheck leak_check monitor command, to produce
     92     the leak report in an xtree file.
     93 
     94 * Massif:
     95 
     96   - Support for --xtree-memory and 'xtmemory [<filename>]>'.
     97 
     98   - For some workloads (typically, for big applications), Massif memory
     99     consumption and CPU consumption has decreased significantly.
    100 
    101 * Helgrind:
    102 
    103   - Support for --xtree-memory and 'xtmemory [<filename>]>'.
    104 
    105   - addition of client request VALGRIND_HG_GNAT_DEPENDENT_MASTER_JOIN, useful
    106     for Ada gnat compiled applications.
    107 
    108 * ==================== OTHER CHANGES ====================
    109 
    110 * For Valgrind developers: in an outer/inner setup, the outer Valgrind will
    111   append the inner guest stacktrace to the inner host stacktrace.  This helps
    112   to investigate the errors reported by the outer, when they are caused by the
    113   inner guest program (such as an inner regtest).  See README_DEVELOPERS for
    114   more info.
    115 
    116 * To allow fast detection of callgrind files by desktop environments and file
    117   managers, the format was extended to have an optional first line that
    118   uniquely identifies the format ("# callgrind format").  Callgrind creates
    119   this line now, as does the new xtree functionality.
    120 
    121 * File name template arguments (such as --log-file, --xtree-memory-file, ...)
    122   have a new %n format letter that is replaced by a sequence number.
    123 
    124 * "--version -v" now shows the SVN revision numbers from which Valgrind was
    125   built.
    126 
    127 * ==================== FIXED BUGS ====================
    128 
    129 The following bugs have been fixed or resolved.  Note that "n-i-bz"
    130 stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
    131 but never got a bugzilla entry.  We encourage you to file bugs in
    132 bugzilla (https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=valgrind) rather
    133 than mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that
    134 are not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
    135 
    136 To see details of a given bug, visit
    137   https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
    138 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed below.
    139 
    140 162848  --log-file output isn't split when a program forks
    141 340777  Illegal instruction on mips (ar71xx)
    142 341481  MIPS64: Iop_CmpNE32 triggers false warning on MIPS64 platforms
    143 342040  Valgrind mishandles clone with CLONE_VFORK | CLONE_VM that clones
    144         to a different stack.
    145 344139  x86 stack-seg overrides, needed by the Wine people
    146 344524  store conditional of guest applications always fail - observed on
    147         Octeon3(MIPS)
    148 348616  Wine/valgrind: noted but unhandled ioctl 0x5390 [..] (DVD_READ_STRUCT)
    149 352395  Please provide SVN revision info in --version -v
    150 352767  Wine/valgrind: noted but unhandled ioctl 0x5307 [..] (CDROMSTOP)
    151 356374  Assertion 'DRD_(g_threadinfo)[tid].pt_threadid !=
    152         INVALID_POSIX_THREADID' failed
    153 358213  helgrind/drd bar_bad testcase hangs or crashes with new glibc pthread
    154         barrier implementation
    155 358697  valgrind.h: Some code remains even when defining NVALGRIND
    156 359202  Add musl libc configure/compile
    157 360415  amd64 instructions ADCX and ADOX are not implemented in VEX
    158         == 372828 (vex amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0x62 0x4A 0x10)
    159 360429  unhandled ioctl 0x530d with no size/direction hints (CDROMREADMODE1)
    160 362223  assertion failed when .valgrindrc is a directory instead of a file
    161 367543  bt/btc/btr/bts x86/x86_64 instructions are poorly-handled wrt flags
    162 367942  Segfault vgPlain_do_sys_sigaction (m_signals.c:1138)
    163 368507  can't malloc chunks larger than about 34GB
    164 368529  Android arm target link error, missing atexit and pthread_atfork
    165 368863  WARNING: unhandled arm64-linux syscall: 100 (get_robust_list)
    166 368865  WARNING: unhandled arm64-linux syscall: 272 (kcmp)
    167 368868  disInstr(arm64): unhandled instruction 0xD53BE000 = cntfrq_el0 (ARMv8)
    168 368917  WARNING: unhandled arm64-linux syscall: 218 (request_key)
    169 368918  WARNING: unhandled arm64-linux syscall: 127 (sched_rr_get_interval)
    170 368922  WARNING: unhandled arm64-linux syscall: 161 (sethostname)
    171 368924  WARNING: unhandled arm64-linux syscall: 84 (sync_file_range)
    172 368925  WARNING: unhandled arm64-linux syscall: 130 (tkill)
    173 368926  WARNING: unhandled arm64-linux syscall: 97 (unshare)
    174 369459  valgrind on arm64 violates the ARMv8 spec (ldxr/stxr)
    175 370028  Reduce the number of compiler warnings on MIPS platforms
    176 370635  arm64 missing syscall getcpu
    177 371225  Fix order of timer_{gettime,getoverrun,settime} syscalls on arm64
    178 371227  Clean AArch64 syscall table
    179 371412  Rename wrap_sys_shmat to sys_shmat like other wrappers
    180 371471  Valgrind complains about non legit memory leaks on placement new (C++)
    181 371491  handleAddrOverrides() is [incorrect] when ASO prefix is used
    182 371503  disInstr(arm64): unhandled instruction 0xF89F0000
    183 371869  support '%' in symbol Z-encoding
    184 371916  execution tree xtree concept
    185 372120  c++ demangler demangles symbols which are not c++
    186 372185  Support of valgrind on ARMv8 with 32 bit executable
    187 372188  vex amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0x62 0x4A 0x10 0x10 0x48 (PCMPxSTRx $0x10)
    188 372195  Power PC, xxsel instruction is not always recognized.
    189 372504  Hanging on exit_group
    190 372600  process loops forever when fatal signals are arriving quickly
    191 372794  LibVEX (arm32 front end): 'Assertion szBlg2 <= 3' failed
    192 373046  Stacks registered by core are never deregistered
    193 373069  memcheck/tests/leak_cpp_interior fails with GCC 5.1+
    194 373086  Implement additional Xen hypercalls
    195 373192  Calling posix_spawn in glibc 2.24 completely broken
    196 373488  Support for fanotify API on ARM64 architecture
    197 	== 368864  WARNING: unhandled arm64-linux syscall: 262 (fanotify_init)
    198 373555  Rename BBPTR to GSPTR as it denotes guest state pointer only
    199 373938  const IRExpr arguments for matchIRExpr()
    200 374719  some spelling fixes
    201 374963  increase valgrind's load address to prevent mmap failure
    202 375514  valgrind_get_tls_addr() does not work in case of static TLS
    203 375772  +1 error in get_elf_symbol_info() when computing value of 'hi' address
    204         for ML_(find_rx_mapping)()
    205 375806  Test helgrind/tests/tc22_exit_w_lock fails with glibc 2.24
    206 375839  Temporary storage exhausted, with long sequence of vfmadd231ps insns
    207         == 377159  "vex: the `impossible' happened" still present
    208         == 375150  Assertion 'tres.status == VexTransOK' failed
    209         == 378068  valgrind crashes on AVX2 function in FFmpeg
    210 376142  Segfaults on MIPS Cavium Octeon boards
    211 376279  disInstr(arm64): unhandled instruction 0xD50320FF
    212 376455  Solaris: unhandled syscall lgrpsys(180)
    213 376518  Solaris: unhandled fast trap getlgrp(6)
    214 376611  ppc64 and arm64 don't know about prlimit64 syscall
    215 376729  PPC64, remove R2 from the clobber list
    216         == 371668
    217 376956  syswrap of SNDDRV and DRM_IOCTL_VERSION causing some addresses
    218         to be wrongly marked as addressable
    219 377066  Some Valgrind unit tests fail to compile on Ubuntu 16.10 with
    220         PIE enabled by default
    221 377376  memcheck/tests/linux/getregset fails with glibc2.24
    222 377427  PPC64, lxv instruction failing on odd destination register 
    223 377478  PPC64: ISA 3.0 setup fixes
    224 377698  Missing memory check for futex() uaddr arg for FUTEX_WAKE
    225         and FUTEX_WAKE_BITSET, check only 4 args for FUTEX_WAKE_BITSET,
    226         and 2 args for FUTEX_TRYLOCK_PI
    227 377717  Fix massive space leak when reading compressed debuginfo sections
    228 377891  Update Xen 4.6 domctl wrappers
    229 377930  fcntl syscall wrapper is missing flock structure check
    230 378524  libvexmultiarch_test regression on s390x and ppc64
    231 378535  Valgrind reports INTERNAL ERROR in execve syscall wrapper
    232 378673  Update libiberty demangler
    233 378931  Add ISA 3.0B additional isnstructions, add OV32, CA32 setting support
    234 379039  syscall wrapper for prctl(PR_SET_NAME) must not check more than 16 bytes
    235 379094  Valgrind reports INTERNAL ERROR in rt_sigsuspend syscall wrapper
    236 379371  UNKNOWN task message [id 3444, to mach_task_self(), reply 0x603]
    237         (task_register_dyld_image_infos)
    238 379372  UNKNOWN task message [id 3447, to mach_task_self(), reply 0x603]
    239         (task_register_dyld_shared_cache_image_info)
    240 379390  unhandled syscall: mach:70 (host_create_mach_voucher_trap)
    241 379473  MIPS: add support for rdhwr cycle counter register
    242 379504  remove TileGX/Linux port
    243 379525  Support more x86 nop opcodes
    244 379838  disAMode(x86): not an addr!
    245 379703  PC ISA 3.0 fixes: stxvx, stxv, xscmpexpdp instructions
    246 379890  arm: unhandled instruction: 0xEBAD 0x1B05 (sub.w fp, sp, r5, lsl #4)
    247 379895  clock_gettime does not execute POST syscall wrapper
    248 379925  PPC64, mtffs does not set the FPCC and C bits in the FPSCR correctly
    249 379966  WARNING: unhandled amd64-linux syscall: 313 (finit_module)
    250 380200  xtree generated callgrind files refer to files without directory name
    251 380202  Assertion failure for cache line size (cls == 64) on aarch64.
    252 380397  s390x: __GI_strcspn() replacement needed
    253 n-i-bz  Fix pub_tool_basics.h build issue with g++ 4.4.7.
    254 
    255 (3.13.0.RC1:  2 June 2017, vex r3386, valgrind r16434)
    256 (3.13.0.RC2:  9 June 2017, vex r3389, valgrind r16443)
    257 (3.13.0:     14 June 2017, vex r3396, valgrind r16446)
    258 
    259 
    260 
    261 Release 3.12.0 (20 October 2016)
    262 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    263 
    264 3.12.0 is a feature release with many improvements and the usual
    265 collection of bug fixes.
    266 
    267 This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM32/Linux,
    268 ARM64/Linux, PPC32/Linux, PPC64BE/Linux, PPC64LE/Linux, S390X/Linux,
    269 MIPS32/Linux, MIPS64/Linux, ARM/Android, ARM64/Android,
    270 MIPS32/Android, X86/Android, X86/Solaris, AMD64/Solaris, X86/MacOSX
    271 10.10 and AMD64/MacOSX 10.10.  There is also preliminary support for
    272 X86/MacOSX 10.11/12, AMD64/MacOSX 10.11/12 and TILEGX/Linux.
    273 
    274 * ================== PLATFORM CHANGES =================
    275 
    276 * POWER: Support for ISA 3.0 has been added
    277 
    278 * mips: support for O32 FPXX ABI has been added.
    279 * mips: improved recognition of different processors
    280 * mips: determination of page size now done at run time
    281 
    282 * amd64: Partial support for AMD FMA4 instructions.
    283 
    284 * arm, arm64: Support for v8 crypto and CRC instructions.
    285 
    286 * Improvements and robustification of the Solaris port.
    287 
    288 * Preliminary support for MacOS 10.12 (Sierra) has been added.
    289 
    290 Whilst 3.12.0 continues to support the 32-bit x86 instruction set, we
    291 would prefer users to migrate to 64-bit x86 (a.k.a amd64 or x86_64)
    292 where possible.  Valgrind's support for 32-bit x86 has stagnated in
    293 recent years and has fallen far behind that for 64-bit x86
    294 instructions.  By contrast 64-bit x86 is well supported, up to and
    295 including AVX2.
    296 
    297 * ==================== TOOL CHANGES ====================
    298 
    299 * Memcheck:
    300 
    301   - Added meta mempool support for describing a custom allocator which:
    302      - Auto-frees all chunks assuming that destroying a pool destroys all
    303        objects in the pool
    304      - Uses itself to allocate other memory blocks
    305 
    306   - New flag --ignore-range-below-sp to ignore memory accesses below
    307     the stack pointer, if you really have to.  The related flag
    308     --workaround-gcc296-bugs=yes is now deprecated.  Use
    309     --ignore-range-below-sp=1024-1 as a replacement.
    310 
    311 * DRD:
    312 
    313   - Improved thread startup time significantly on non-Linux platforms.
    314 
    315 * DHAT
    316 
    317   - Added collection of the metric "tot-blocks-allocd"
    318 
    319 * ==================== OTHER CHANGES ====================
    320 
    321 * Replacement/wrapping of malloc/new related functions is now done not just
    322   for system libraries by default, but for any globally defined malloc/new
    323   related function (both in shared libraries and statically linked alternative
    324   malloc implementations).  The dynamic (runtime) linker is excluded, though.
    325   To only intercept malloc/new related functions in
    326   system libraries use --soname-synonyms=somalloc=nouserintercepts (where
    327   "nouserintercepts" can be any non-existing library name).
    328   This new functionality is not implemented for MacOS X.
    329 
    330 * The maximum number of callers in a suppression entry is now equal to
    331   the maximum size for --num-callers (500).
    332   Note that --gen-suppressions=yes|all similarly generates suppressions
    333   containing up to --num-callers frames.
    334 
    335 * New and modified GDB server monitor features:
    336 
    337   - Valgrind's gdbserver now accepts the command 'catch syscall'.
    338     Note that you must have GDB >= 7.11 to use 'catch syscall' with
    339     gdbserver.
    340 
    341 * New option --run-cxx-freeres=<yes|no> can be used to change whether
    342   __gnu_cxx::__freeres() cleanup function is called or not. Default is
    343   'yes'.
    344 
    345 * Valgrind is able to read compressed debuginfo sections in two formats:
    346   - zlib ELF gABI format with SHF_COMPRESSED flag (gcc option -gz=zlib)
    347   - zlib GNU format with .zdebug sections (gcc option -gz=zlib-gnu)
    348 
    349 * Modest JIT-cost improvements: the cost of instrumenting code blocks
    350   for the most common use case (x86_64-linux, Memcheck) has been
    351   reduced by 10%-15%.
    352 
    353 * Improved performance for programs that do a lot of discarding of
    354   instruction address ranges of 8KB or less.
    355 
    356 * The C++ symbol demangler has been updated.
    357 
    358 * More robustness against invalid syscall parameters on Linux.
    359 
    360 * ==================== FIXED BUGS ====================
    361 
    362 The following bugs have been fixed or resolved.  Note that "n-i-bz"
    363 stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
    364 but never got a bugzilla entry.  We encourage you to file bugs in
    365 bugzilla (https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=valgrind) rather
    366 than mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that
    367 are not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
    368 
    369 To see details of a given bug, visit
    370   https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
    371 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed below.
    372 
    373 191069  Exiting due to signal not reported in XML output
    374 199468  Suppressions: stack size limited to 25
    375         while --num-callers allows more frames
    376 212352  vex amd64 unhandled opc_aux = 0x 2, first_opcode == 0xDC (FCOM)
    377 278744  cvtps2pd with redundant RexW
    378 303877  valgrind doesn't support compressed debuginfo sections.
    379 345307  Warning about "still reachable" memory when using libstdc++ from gcc 5
    380 348345  Assertion fails for negative lineno
    381 348924  MIPS: Load doubles through memory so the code compiles with the FPXX ABI
    382 351282  V 3.10.1 MIPS softfloat build broken with GCC 4.9.3 / binutils 2.25.1
    383 351692  Dumps created by valgrind are not readable by gdb (mips32 specific)
    384 351804  Crash on generating suppressions for "printf" call on OS X 10.10
    385 352197  mips: mmap2() not wrapped correctly for page size > 4096
    386 353083  arm64 doesn't implement various xattr system calls
    387 353084  arm64 doesn't support sigpending system call
    388 353137  www: update info for Supported Platforms
    389 353138  www: update "The Valgrind Developers" page
    390 353370  don't advertise RDRAND in cpuid for Core-i7-4910-like avx2 machine
    391         == 365325
    392         == 357873
    393 353384  amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0x62 0xD1 0x62 (pcmpXstrX $0x62)
    394 353398  WARNING: unhandled amd64-solaris syscall: 207
    395 353660  XML in auxwhat tag not escaping reserved symbols properly
    396 353680  s390x: Crash with certain glibc versions due to non-implemented TBEGIN
    397 353727  amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0x62 0xD1 0x72 (pcmpXstrX $0x72)
    398 353802  ELF debug info reader confused with multiple .rodata sections
    399 353891  Assert 'bad_scanned_addr < VG_ROUNDDN(start+len, sizeof(Addr))' failed
    400 353917  unhandled amd64-solaris syscall fchdir(120)
    401 353920  unhandled amd64-solaris syscall: 170
    402 354274  arm: unhandled instruction: 0xEBAD 0x0AC1 (sub.w sl, sp, r1, lsl #3)
    403 354392  unhandled amd64-solaris syscall: 171
    404 354797  Vbit test does not include Iops for Power 8 instruction support
    405 354883  tst->os_state.pthread - magic_delta assertion failure on OSX 10.11
    406         == 361351
    407         == 362920
    408         == 366222
    409 354933  Fix documentation of --kernel-variant=android-no-hw-tls option
    410 355188  valgrind should intercept all malloc related global functions
    411 355454  do not intercept malloc related symbols from the runtime linker
    412 355455  stderr.exp of test cases wrapmalloc and wrapmallocstatic overconstrained
    413 356044  Dwarf line info reader misinterprets is_stmt register
    414 356112  mips: replace addi with addiu
    415 356393  valgrind (vex) crashes because isZeroU happened
    416         == 363497
    417         == 364497
    418 356676  arm64-linux: unhandled syscalls 125, 126 (sched_get_priority_max/min)
    419 356678  arm64-linux: unhandled syscall 232 (mincore)
    420 356817  valgrind.h triggers compiler errors on MSVC when defining NVALGRIND
    421 356823  Unsupported ARM instruction: stlex
    422 357059  x86/amd64: SSE cvtpi2ps with memory source does transition to MMX state
    423 357338  Unhandled instruction for SHA instructions libcrypto Boring SSL
    424 357673  crash if I try to run valgrind with a binary link with libcurl
    425 357833  Setting RLIMIT_DATA to zero breaks with linux 4.5+
    426 357871  pthread_spin_destroy not properly wrapped
    427 357887  Calls to VG_(fclose) do not close the file descriptor
    428 357932  amd64->IR: accept redundant REX prefixes for {minsd,maxsd} m128, xmm.
    429 358030  support direct socket calls on x86 32bit (new in linux 4.3)
    430 358478  drd/tests/std_thread.cpp doesn't build with GCC6
    431 359133  Assertion 'eltSzB <= ddpa->poolSzB' failed
    432 359181  Buffer Overflow during Demangling
    433 359201  futex syscall "skips" argument 5 if op is FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET
    434 359289  s390x: popcnt (B9E1) not implemented
    435 359472  The Power PC vsubuqm instruction doesn't always give the correct result
    436 359503  Add missing syscalls for aarch64 (arm64)
    437 359645  "You need libc6-dbg" help message could be more helpful
    438 359703  s390: wire up separate socketcalls system calls
    439 359724  getsockname might crash - deref_UInt should call safe_to_deref
    440 359733  amd64 implement ld.so strchr/index override like x86
    441 359767  Valgrind does not support the IBM POWER ISA 3.0 instructions, part 1/5
    442 359829  Power PC test suite none/tests/ppc64/test_isa_2_07.c uses
    443         uninitialized data
    444 359838  arm64: Unhandled instruction 0xD5033F5F (clrex)
    445 359871  Incorrect mask handling in ppoll
    446 359952  Unrecognised PCMPESTRM variants (0x70, 0x19)
    447 360008  Contents of Power vr registers contents is not printed correctly when
    448         the --vgdb-shadow-registers=yes option is used
    449 360035  POWER PC instruction bcdadd and bcdsubtract generate result with
    450         non-zero shadow bits
    451 360378  arm64: Unhandled instruction 0x5E280844 (sha1h  s4, s2)
    452 360425  arm64 unsupported instruction ldpsw
    453         == 364435
    454 360519  none/tests/arm64/memory.vgtest might fail with newer gcc
    455 360571  Error about the Android Runtime reading below the stack pointer on ARM
    456 360574  Wrong parameter type for an ashmem ioctl() call on Android and ARM64
    457 360749  kludge for multiple .rodata sections on Solaris no longer needed
    458 360752  raise the number of reserved fds in m_main.c from 10 to 12
    459 361207  Valgrind does not support the IBM POWER ISA 3.0 instructions, part 2/5
    460 361226  s390x: risbgn (EC59) not implemented
    461 361253  [s390x] ex_clone.c:42: undefined reference to `pthread_create'
    462 361354  ppc64[le]: wire up separate socketcalls system calls
    463 361615  Inconsistent termination for multithreaded process terminated by signal
    464 361926  Unhandled Solaris syscall: sysfs(84)
    465 362009  V dumps core on unimplemented functionality before threads are created
    466 362329  Valgrind does not support the IBM POWER ISA 3.0 instructions, part 3/5
    467 362894  missing (broken) support for wbit field on mtfsfi instruction (ppc64)
    468 362935  [AsusWRT] Assertion 'sizeof(TTEntryC) <= 88' failed
    469 362953  Request for an update to the Valgrind Developers page
    470 363680  add renameat2() support
    471 363705  arm64 missing syscall name_to_handle_at and open_by_handle_at
    472 363714  ppc64 missing syscalls sync, waitid and name_to/open_by_handle_at
    473 363858  Valgrind does not support the IBM POWER ISA 3.0 instructions, part 4/5
    474 364058  clarify in manual limitations of array overruns detections
    475 364413  pselect sycallwrapper mishandles NULL sigmask
    476 364728  Power PC, missing support for several HW registers in
    477         get_otrack_shadow_offset_wrk()
    478 364948  Valgrind does not support the IBM POWER ISA 3.0 instructions, part 5/5
    479 365273  Invalid write to stack location reported after signal handler runs
    480 365912  ppc64BE segfault during jm-insns test (RELRO)
    481 366079  FPXX Support for MIPS32 Valgrind
    482 366138  Fix configure errors out when using Xcode 8 (clang 8.0.0)
    483 366344  Multiple unhandled instruction for Aarch64
    484         (0x0EE0E020, 0x1AC15800, 0x4E284801, 0x5E040023, 0x5E056060)
    485 367995  Integration of memcheck with custom memory allocator
    486 368120  x86_linux asm _start functions do not keep 16-byte aligned stack pointer
    487 368412  False positive result for altivec capability check
    488 368416  Add tc06_two_races_xml.exp output for ppc64
    489 368419  Perf Events ioctls not implemented
    490 368461  mmapunmap test fails on ppc64
    491 368823  run_a_thread_NORETURN assembly code typo for VGP_arm64_linux target
    492 369000  AMD64 fma4 instructions unsupported.
    493 369169  ppc64 fails jm_int_isa_2_07 test
    494 369175  jm_vec_isa_2_07 test crashes on ppc64
    495 369209  valgrind loops and eats up all memory if cwd doesn't exist.
    496 369356  pre_mem_read_sockaddr syscall wrapper can crash with bad sockaddr
    497 369359  msghdr_foreachfield can crash when handling bad iovec
    498 369360  Bad sigprocmask old or new sets can crash valgrind
    499 369361  vmsplice syscall wrapper crashes on bad iovec
    500 369362  Bad sigaction arguments crash valgrind
    501 369383  x86 sys_modify_ldt wrapper crashes on bad ptr
    502 369402  Bad set/get_thread_area pointer crashes valgrind
    503 369441  bad lvec argument crashes process_vm_readv/writev syscall wrappers
    504 369446  valgrind crashes on unknown fcntl command
    505 369439  S390x: Unhandled insns RISBLG/RISBHG and LDE/LDER 
    506 369468  Remove quadratic metapool algorithm using VG_(HT_remove_at_Iter)
    507 370265  ISA 3.0 HW cap stuff needs updating
    508 371128  BCD add and subtract instructions on Power BE in 32-bit mode do not work
    509 372195  Power PC, xxsel instruction is not always recognized
    510 
    511 n-i-bz  Fix incorrect (or infinite loop) unwind on RHEL7 x86 and amd64
    512 n-i-bz  massif --pages-as-heap=yes does not report peak caused by mmap+munmap
    513 n-i-bz  false positive leaks due to aspacemgr merging heap & non heap segments
    514 n-i-bz  Fix ppoll_alarm exclusion on OS X
    515 n-i-bz  Document brk segment limitation, reference manual in limit reached msg.
    516 n-i-bz  Fix clobber list in none/tests/amd64/xacq_xrel.c [valgrind r15737]
    517 n-i-bz  Bump allowed shift value for "add.w reg, sp, reg, lsl #N" [vex r3206]
    518 n-i-bz  amd64: memcheck false positive with shr %edx
    519 n-i-bz  arm3: Allow early writeback of SP base register in "strd rD, [sp, #-16]"
    520 n-i-bz  ppc: Fix two cases of PPCAvFpOp vs PPCFpOp enum confusion
    521 n-i-bz  arm: Fix incorrect register-number constraint check for LDAEX{,B,H,D}
    522 n-i-bz  DHAT: added collection of the metric "tot-blocks-allocd" 
    523 
    524 (3.12.0.RC1:  20 October 2016, vex r3282, valgrind r16094)
    525 (3.12.0.RC2:  20 October 2016, vex r3282, valgrind r16096)
    526 (3.12.0:      21 October 2016, vex r3282, valgrind r16098)
    527 
    528 
    529 
    530 Release 3.11.0 (22 September 2015)
    531 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    532 
    533 3.11.0 is a feature release with many improvements and the usual
    534 collection of bug fixes.
    535 
    536 This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM32/Linux,
    537 ARM64/Linux, PPC32/Linux, PPC64BE/Linux, PPC64LE/Linux, S390X/Linux,
    538 MIPS32/Linux, MIPS64/Linux, ARM/Android, ARM64/Android,
    539 MIPS32/Android, X86/Android, X86/Solaris, AMD64/Solaris, X86/MacOSX
    540 10.10 and AMD64/MacOSX 10.10.  There is also preliminary support for
    541 X86/MacOSX 10.11, AMD64/MacOSX 10.11 and TILEGX/Linux.
    542 
    543 * ================== PLATFORM CHANGES =================
    544 
    545 * Support for Solaris/x86 and Solaris/amd64 has been added.
    546 
    547 * Preliminary support for Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) has been added.
    548 
    549 * Preliminary support for the Tilera TileGX architecture has been added.
    550 
    551 * s390x: It is now required for the host to have the "long displacement"
    552   facility.  The oldest supported machine model is z990.
    553 
    554 * x86: on an SSE2 only host, Valgrind in 32 bit mode now claims to be a
    555   Pentium 4.  3.10.1 wrongly claimed to be a Core 2, which is SSSE3.
    556 
    557 * The JIT's register allocator is significantly faster, making the JIT
    558   as a whole somewhat faster, so JIT-intensive activities, for example
    559   program startup, are modestly faster, around 5%.
    560 
    561 * There have been changes to the default settings of several command
    562   line flags, as detailed below.
    563 
    564 * Intel AVX2 support is more complete (64 bit targets only).  On AVX2
    565   capable hosts, the simulated CPUID will now indicate AVX2 support.
    566 
    567 * ==================== TOOL CHANGES ====================
    568 
    569 * Memcheck:
    570 
    571   - The default value for --leak-check-heuristics has been changed from
    572     "none" to "all". This helps to reduce the number of possibly
    573     lost blocks, in particular for C++ applications.
    574 
    575   - The default value for --keep-stacktraces has been changed from
    576     "malloc-then-free" to "malloc-and-free".  This has a small cost in
    577     memory (one word per malloc-ed block) but allows Memcheck to show the
    578     3 stacktraces of a dangling reference: where the block was allocated,
    579     where it was freed, and where it is acccessed after being freed.
    580 
    581   - The default value for --partial-loads-ok has been changed from "no" to 
    582     "yes", so as to avoid false positive errors resulting from some kinds
    583     of vectorised loops.
    584 
    585   - A new monitor command 'xb <addr> <len>' shows the validity bits of
    586     <len> bytes at <addr>.  The monitor command 'xb' is easier to use
    587     than get_vbits when you need to associate byte data value with
    588     their corresponding validity bits.
    589 
    590   - The 'block_list' monitor command has been enhanced:
    591       o it can print a range of loss records
    592       o it now accepts an optional argument 'limited <max_blocks>'
    593         to control the number of blocks printed.
    594       o if a block has been found using a heuristic, then
    595         'block_list' now shows the heuristic after the block size.
    596       o the loss records/blocks to print can be limited to the blocks
    597         found via specified heuristics.
    598 
    599   - The C helper functions used to instrument loads on
    600     x86-{linux,solaris} and arm-linux (both 32-bit only) have been
    601     replaced by handwritten assembly sequences.  This gives speedups
    602     in the region of 0% to 7% for those targets only.
    603 
    604   - A new command line option, --expensive-definedness-checks=yes|no,
    605     has been added.  This is useful for avoiding occasional invalid
    606     uninitialised-value errors in optimised code.  Watch out for
    607     runtime degradation, as this can be up to 25%.  As always, though,
    608     the slowdown is highly application specific.  The default setting
    609     is "no".
    610 
    611 * Massif:
    612 
    613   - A new monitor command 'all_snapshots <filename>' dumps all
    614     snapshots taken so far.
    615 
    616 * Helgrind:
    617 
    618   - Significant memory reduction and moderate speedups for
    619     --history-level=full for applications accessing a lot of memory
    620     with many different stacktraces.
    621 
    622   - The default value for --conflict-cache-size=N has been doubled to
    623     2000000.  Users that were not using the default value should
    624     preferably also double the value they give.
    625 
    626     The default was changed due to the changes in the "full history"
    627     implementation.  Doubling the value gives on average a slightly more
    628     complete history and uses similar memory (or significantly less memory
    629     in the worst case) than the previous implementation.
    630     
    631   - The Helgrind monitor command 'info locks' now accepts an optional
    632     argument 'lock_addr', which shows information about the lock at the
    633     given address only.
    634 
    635   - When using --history-level=full, the new Helgrind monitor command
    636     'accesshistory <addr> [<len>]' will show the recorded accesses for
    637     <len> (or 1) bytes at <addr>.
    638 
    639 * ==================== OTHER CHANGES ====================
    640 
    641 * The default value for the --smc-check option has been changed from
    642   "stack" to "all-non-file" on targets that provide automatic D-I
    643   cache coherence (x86, amd64 and s390x).  The result is to provide,
    644   by default, transparent support for JIT generated and self-modifying
    645   code on all targets.
    646 
    647 * Mac OS X only: the default value for the --dsymutil option has been
    648   changed from "no" to "yes", since any serious usage on Mac OS X
    649   always required it to be "yes".
    650 
    651 * The command line options --db-attach and --db-command have been removed.
    652   They were deprecated in 3.10.0.
    653 
    654 * When a process dies due to a signal, Valgrind now shows the signal
    655   and the stacktrace at default verbosity (i.e. verbosity 1).
    656 
    657 * The address description logic used by Memcheck and Helgrind now
    658   describes addresses in anonymous segments, file mmap-ed segments,
    659   shared memory segments and the brk data segment.
    660 
    661 * The new option --error-markers=<begin>,<end> can be used to mark the
    662   begin/end of errors in textual output mode, to facilitate
    663   searching/extracting errors in output files that mix valgrind errors
    664   with program output.
    665 
    666 * The new option --max-threads=<number> can be used to change the number
    667   of threads valgrind can handle.  The default is 500 threads which
    668   should be more than enough for most applications.
    669 
    670 * The new option --valgrind-stacksize=<number> can be used to change the
    671   size of the private thread stacks used by Valgrind.  This is useful
    672   for reducing memory use or increasing the stack size if Valgrind
    673   segfaults due to stack overflow.
    674 
    675 * The new option --avg-transtab-entry-size=<number> can be used to specify
    676   the expected instrumented block size, either to reduce memory use or
    677   to avoid excessive retranslation.
    678 
    679 * Valgrind can be built with Intel's ICC compiler, version 14.0 or later.
    680 
    681 * New and modified GDB server monitor features:
    682 
    683   - When a signal is reported in GDB, you can now use the GDB convenience
    684     variable $_siginfo to examine detailed signal information.
    685  
    686   - Valgrind's gdbserver now allows the user to change the signal
    687     to deliver to the process.  So, use 'signal SIGNAL' to continue execution
    688     with SIGNAL instead of the signal reported to GDB. Use 'signal 0' to
    689     continue without passing the signal to the process.
    690 
    691   - With GDB >= 7.10, the command 'target remote'
    692     will automatically load the executable file of the process running
    693     under Valgrind. This means you do not need to specify the executable
    694     file yourself, GDB will discover it itself.  See GDB documentation about
    695     'qXfer:exec-file:read' packet for more info.
    696 
    697 * ==================== FIXED BUGS ====================
    698 
    699 The following bugs have been fixed or resolved.  Note that "n-i-bz"
    700 stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
    701 but never got a bugzilla entry.  We encourage you to file bugs in
    702 bugzilla (https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=valgrind) rather
    703 than mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that
    704 are not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
    705 
    706 To see details of a given bug, visit
    707   https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
    708 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed below.
    709 
    710 116002  VG_(printf): Problems with justification of strings and integers
    711 155125  avoid cutting away file:lineno after long function name
    712 197259  Unsupported arch_prtctl PR_SET_GS option
    713 201152  ppc64: Assertion in ppc32g_dirtyhelper_MFSPR_268_269
    714 201216  Fix Valgrind does not support pthread_sigmask() on OS X
    715 201435  Fix Darwin: -v does not show kernel version
    716 208217  "Warning: noted but unhandled ioctl 0x2000747b" on Mac OS X
    717 211256  Fixed an outdated comment regarding the default platform.
    718 211529  Incomplete call stacks for code compiled by newer versions of MSVC
    719 211926  Avoid compilation warnings in valgrind.h with -pedantic
    720 212291  Fix unhandled syscall: unix:132 (mkfifo) on OS X
    721         == 263119
    722 226609  Crediting upstream authors in man page
    723 231257  Valgrind omits path when executing script from shebang line
    724 254164  OS X task_info: UNKNOWN task message [id 3405, to mach_task_self() [..]
    725 294065  Improve the pdb file reader by avoiding hardwired absolute pathnames
    726 269360  s390x: Fix addressing mode selection for compare-and-swap
    727 302630  Memcheck: Assertion failed: 'sizeof(UWord) == sizeof(UInt)'
    728         == 326797
    729 312989  ioctl handling needs to do POST handling on generic ioctls and [..]
    730 319274  Fix unhandled syscall: unix:410 (sigsuspend_nocancel) on OS X
    731 324181  mmap does not handle MAP_32BIT (handle it now, rather than fail it)
    732 327745  Fix valgrind 3.9.0 build fails on Mac OS X 10.6.8
    733 330147  libmpiwrap PMPI_Get_count returns undefined value
    734 333051  mmap of huge pages fails due to incorrect alignment
    735         == 339163
    736 334802  valgrind does not always explain why a given option is bad
    737 335618  mov.w rN, pc/sp (ARM32)
    738 335785  amd64->IR 0xC4 0xE2 0x75 0x2F (vmaskmovpd)
    739         == 307399
    740         == 343175
    741         == 342740
    742         == 346912
    743 335907  segfault when running wine's ddrawex/tests/surface.c under valgrind
    744 338602  AVX2 bit in CPUID missing
    745 338606  Strange message for scripts with invalid interpreter
    746 338731  ppc: Fix testuite build for toolchains not supporting -maltivec
    747 338995  shmat with hugepages (SHM_HUGETLB) fails with EINVAL
    748 339045  Getting valgrind to compile and run on OS X Yosemite (10.10)
    749         == 340252
    750 339156  gdbsrv not called for fatal signal
    751 339215  Valgrind 3.10.0 contain 2013 in copyrights notice
    752 339288  support Cavium Octeon MIPS specific BBIT*32 instructions
    753 339636  Use fxsave64 and fxrstor64 mnemonics instead of old-school rex64 prefix
    754 339442  Fix testsuite build failure on OS X 10.9
    755 339542  Enable compilation with Intel's ICC compiler
    756 339563  The DVB demux DMX_STOP ioctl doesn't have a wrapper
    757 339688  Mac-specific ASM does not support .version directive (cpuid,
    758         tronical and pushfpopf tests)
    759 339745  Valgrind crash when check Marmalade app (partial fix)
    760 339755  Fix known deliberate memory leak in setenv() on Mac OS X 10.9
    761 339778  Linux/TileGx platform support for Valgrind
    762 339780  Fix known uninitialised read in pthread_rwlock_init() on Mac OS X 10.9 
    763 339789  Fix none/tests/execve test on Mac OS X 10.9
    764 339808  Fix none/tests/rlimit64_nofile test on Mac OS X 10.9
    765 339820  vex amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0x63 0xA 0x42 0x74 0x9 (pcmpistri $0x42)
    766 340115  Fix none/tests/cmdline[1|2] tests on systems which define TMPDIR
    767 340392  Allow user to select more accurate definedness checking in memcheck
    768         to avoid invalid complaints on optimised code
    769 340430  Fix some grammatical weirdness in the manual.
    770 341238  Recognize GCC5/DWARFv5 DW_LANG constants (Go, C11, C++11, C++14)
    771 341419  Signal handler ucontext_t not filled out correctly on OS X
    772 341539  VG_(describe_addr) should not describe address as belonging to client
    773         segment if it is past the heap end
    774 341613  Enable building of manythreads and thread-exits tests on Mac OS X
    775 341615  Fix none/tests/darwin/access_extended test on Mac OS X
    776 341698  Valgrind's AESKEYGENASSIST gives wrong result in words 0 and 2 [..]
    777 341789  aarch64: shmat fails with valgrind on ARMv8
    778 341997  MIPS64: Cavium OCTEON insns - immediate operand handled incorrectly
    779 342008  valgrind.h needs type cast [..] for clang/llvm in 64-bit mode
    780 342038  Unhandled syscalls on aarch64 (mbind/get/set_mempolicy)
    781 342063  wrong format specifier for test mcblocklistsearch in gdbserver_tests
    782 342117  Hang when loading PDB file for MSVC compiled Firefox under Wine
    783 342221  socket connect false positive uninit memory for unknown af family
    784 342353  Allow dumping full massif output while valgrind is still running
    785 342571  Valgrind chokes on AVX compare intrinsic with _CMP_GE_QS
    786         == 346476
    787         == 348387
    788         == 350593
    789 342603  Add I2C_SMBUS ioctl support
    790 342635  OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) - missing system calls and fcntl code
    791 342683  Mark memory past the initial brk limit as unaddressable
    792 342783  arm: unhandled instruction 0xEEFE1ACA = "vcvt.s32.f32 s3, s3, #12"
    793 342795  Internal glibc __GI_mempcpy call should be intercepted
    794 342841  s390x: Support instructions fiebr(a) and fidbr(a)
    795 343012  Unhandled syscall 319 (memfd_create)
    796 343069  Patch updating v4l2 API support
    797 343173  helgrind crash during stack unwind
    798 343219  fix GET_STARTREGS for arm
    799 343303  Fix known deliberate memory leak in setenv() on Mac OS X 10.10
    800 343306  OS X 10.10: UNKNOWN mach_msg unhandled MACH_SEND_TRAILER option
    801 343332  Unhandled instruction 0x9E310021 (fcvtmu) on aarch64
    802 343335  unhandled instruction 0x1E638400 (fccmp) aarch64
    803 343523  OS X mach_ports_register: UNKNOWN task message [id 3403, to [..]
    804 343525  OS X host_get_special_port: UNKNOWN host message [id 412, to [..]
    805 343597  ppc64le: incorrect use of offseof macro
    806 343649  OS X host_create_mach_voucher: UNKNOWN host message [id 222, to [..]
    807 343663  OS X 10.10  Memchecj always reports a leak regardless of [..]
    808 343732  Unhandled syscall 144 (setgid) on aarch64
    809 343733  Unhandled syscall 187 (msgctl and related) on aarch64
    810 343802  s390x: False positive "conditional jump or move depends on [..]
    811 343902  --vgdb=yes doesn't break when --xml=yes is used
    812 343967  Don't warn about setuid/setgid/setcap executable for directories
    813 343978  Recognize DWARF5/GCC5 DW_LANG_Fortran 2003 and 2008 constants
    814 344007  accept4 syscall unhandled on arm64 (242) and ppc64 (344)
    815 344033  Helgrind on ARM32 loses track of mutex state in pthread_cond_wait
    816 344054  www - update info for Solaris/illumos
    817 344416  'make regtest' does not work cleanly on OS X
    818 344235  Remove duplicate include of pub_core_aspacemgr.h
    819 344279  syscall sendmmsg on arm64 (269) and ppc32/64 (349) unhandled
    820 344295  syscall recvmmsg on arm64 (243) and ppc32/64 (343) unhandled
    821 344307  2 unhandled syscalls on aarch64/arm64: umount2(39), mount (40)
    822 344314  callgrind_annotate ... warnings about commands containing newlines
    823 344318  socketcall should wrap recvmmsg and sendmmsg
    824 344337  Fix unhandled syscall: mach:41 (_kernelrpc_mach_port_guard_trap)
    825 344416  Fix 'make regtest' does not work cleanly on OS X
    826 344499  Fix compilation for Linux kernel >= 4.0.0
    827 344512  OS X: unhandled syscall: unix:348 (__pthread_chdir), 
    828         unix:349 (__pthread_fchdir)
    829 344559  Garbage collection of unused segment names in address space manager
    830 344560  Fix stack traces missing penultimate frame on OS X
    831 344621  Fix memcheck/tests/err_disable4 test on OS X
    832 344686  Fix suppression for pthread_rwlock_init on OS X 10.10
    833 344702  Fix missing libobjc suppressions on OS X 10.10
    834         == 344543
    835 344936  Fix unhandled syscall: unix:473 (readlinkat) on OS X 10.10
    836 344939  Fix memcheck/tests/xml1 on OS X 10.10
    837 345016  helgrind/tests/locked_vs_unlocked2 is failing sometimes
    838 345079  Fix build problems in VEX/useful/test_main.c
    839 345126  Incorrect handling of VIDIOC_G_AUDIO and G_AUDOUT
    840 345177  arm64: prfm (reg) not implemented
    841 345215  Performance improvements for the register allocator
    842 345248  add support for Solaris OS in valgrind
    843 345338  TIOCGSERIAL and TIOCSSERIAL ioctl support on Linux
    844 345394  Fix memcheck/tests/strchr on OS X
    845 345637  Fix memcheck/tests/sendmsg on OS X
    846 345695  Add POWERPC support for AT_DCACHESIZE and HWCAP2
    847 345824  Fix aspacem segment mismatch: seen with none/tests/bigcode
    848 345887  Fix an assertion in the address space manager
    849 345928  amd64: callstack only contains current function for small stacks
    850 345984  disInstr(arm): unhandled instruction: 0xEE193F1E
    851 345987  MIPS64: Implement cavium LHX instruction
    852 346031  MIPS: Implement support for the CvmCount register (rhwr %0, 31)
    853 346185  Fix typo saving altivec register v24
    854 346267  Compiler warnings for PPC64 code on call to LibVEX_GuestPPC64_get_XER()
    855         and LibVEX_GuestPPC64_get_CR()
    856 346270  Regression tests none/tests/jm_vec/isa_2_07 and
    857         none/tests/test_isa_2_07_part2 have failures on PPC64 little endian
    858 346307  fuse filesystem syscall deadlocks
    859 346324  PPC64 missing support for lbarx, lharx, stbcx and sthcx instructions
    860 346411  MIPS: SysRes::_valEx handling is incorrect
    861 346416  Add support for LL_IOC_PATH2FID and LL_IOC_GETPARENT Lustre ioctls
    862 346474  PPC64 Power 8, spr TEXASRU register not supported
    863 346487  Compiler generates "note" about a future ABI change for PPC64
    864 346562  MIPS64: lwl/lwr instructions are performing 64bit loads
    865         and causing spurious "invalid read of size 8" warnings
    866 346801  Fix link error on OS X: _vgModuleLocal_sf_maybe_extend_stack
    867 347151  Fix suppression for pthread_rwlock_init on OS X 10.8
    868 347233  Fix memcheck/tests/strchr on OS X 10.10 (Haswell) 
    869 347322  Power PC regression test cleanup
    870 347379  valgrind --leak-check=full leak errors from system libs on OS X 10.8
    871         == 217236
    872 347389  unhandled syscall: 373 (Linux ARM syncfs)
    873 347686  Patch set to cleanup PPC64 regtests
    874 347978  Remove bash dependencies where not needed
    875 347982  OS X: undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "_global" [..]
    876 347988  Memcheck: the 'impossible' happened: unexpected size for Addr (OSX/wine)
    877         == 345929
    878 348102  Patch updating v4l2 API support
    879 348247  amd64 front end: jno jumps wrongly when overflow is not set
    880 348269  Improve mmap MAP_HUGETLB support.
    881 348334  (ppc) valgrind does not simulate dcbfl - then my program terminates
    882 348345  Assertion fails for negative lineno
    883 348377  Unsupported ARM instruction: yield
    884 348565  Fix detection of command line option availability for clang
    885 348574  vex amd64->IR pcmpistri SSE4.2 unsupported (pcmpistri $0x18)
    886 348728  Fix broken check for VIDIOC_G_ENC_INDEX
    887 348748  Fix redundant condition
    888 348890  Fix clang warning about unsupported --param inline-unit-growth=900
    889 348949  Bogus "ERROR: --ignore-ranges: suspiciously large range"
    890 349034  Add Lustre ioctls LL_IOC_GROUP_LOCK and LL_IOC_GROUP_UNLOCK
    891 349086  Fix UNKNOWN task message [id 3406, to mach_task_self(), [..]
    892 349087  Fix UNKNOWN task message [id 3410, to mach_task_self(), [..]
    893 349626  Implemented additional Xen hypercalls
    894 349769  Clang/osx: ld: warning: -read_only_relocs cannot be used with x86_64
    895 349790  Clean up of the hardware capability checking utilities.
    896 349828  memcpy intercepts memmove causing src/dst overlap error (ppc64 ld.so)
    897 349874  Fix typos in source code
    898 349879  memcheck: add handwritten assembly for helperc_LOADV*
    899 349941  di_notify_mmap might create wrong start/size DebugInfoMapping
    900 350062  vex x86->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0xB (ROUNDSD) on OS X
    901 350202  Add limited param to 'monitor block_list'
    902 350290  s390x: Support instructions fixbr(a)
    903 350359  memcheck/tests/x86/fxsave hangs indefinetely on OS X
    904 350809  Fix none/tests/async-sigs for Solaris
    905 350811  Remove reference to --db-attach which has been removed.
    906 350813  Memcheck/x86: enable handwritten assembly helpers for x86/Solaris too
    907 350854  hard-to-understand code in VG_(load_ELF)()
    908 351140  arm64 syscalls setuid (146) and setresgid (149) not implemented
    909 351386  Solaris: Cannot run ld.so.1 under Valgrind
    910 351474  Fix VG_(iseqsigset) as obvious
    911 351531  Typo in /include/vki/vki-xen-physdev.h header guard
    912 351756  Intercept platform_memchr$VARIANT$Haswell on OS X
    913 351858  ldsoexec support on Solaris
    914 351873  Newer gcc doesn't allow __builtin_tabortdc[i] in ppc32 mode
    915 352130  helgrind reports false races for printfs using mempcpy on FILE* state
    916 352284  s390: Conditional jump depends on uninitialised value(s) in vfprintf 
    917 352320  arm64 crash on none/tests/nestedfs
    918 352765  Vbit test fails on Power 6
    919 352768  The mbar instruction is missing from the Power PC support
    920 352769  Power PC program priority register (PPR) is not supported
    921 n-i-bz  Provide implementations of certain compiler builtins to support
    922         compilers that may not provide those
    923 n-i-bz  Old STABS code is still being compiled, but never used. Remove it.
    924 n-i-bz  Fix compilation on distros with glibc < 2.5
    925 n-i-bz  (vex 3098) Avoid generation of Neon insns on non-Neon hosts
    926 n-i-bz  Enable rt_sigpending syscall on ppc64 linux.
    927 n-i-bz  mremap did not work properly on shared memory
    928 n-i-bz  Fix incorrect sizeof expression in syswrap-xen.c reported by Coverity
    929 n-i-bz  In VALGRIND_PRINTF write out thread name, if any, to xml
    930 
    931 (3.11.0.TEST1:  8 September 2015, vex r3187, valgrind r15646)
    932 (3.11.0.TEST2: 21 September 2015, vex r3193, valgrind r15667)
    933 (3.11.0:       22 September 2015, vex r3195, valgrind r15674)
    934 
    935 
    936 
    937 Release 3.10.1 (25 November 2014)
    938 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    939 3.10.1 is a bug fix release.  It fixes various bugs reported in 3.10.0
    940 and backports fixes for all reported missing AArch64 ARMv8 instructions
    941 and syscalls from the trunk.  If you package or deliver 3.10.0 for others
    942 to use, you might want to consider upgrading to 3.10.1 instead.
    943 
    944 The following bugs have been fixed or resolved.  Note that "n-i-bz"
    945 stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
    946 but never got a bugzilla entry.  We encourage you to file bugs in
    947 bugzilla (https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=valgrind) rather
    948 than mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that
    949 are not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
    950 
    951 To see details of a given bug, visit
    952   https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
    953 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed below.
    954 
    955 335440  arm64: ld1 (single structure) is not implemented
    956 335713  arm64: unhanded instruction: prfm (immediate)
    957 339020  ppc64: memcheck/tests/ppc64/power_ISA2_05 failing in nightly build
    958 339182  ppc64: AvSplat ought to load destination vector register with [..]
    959 339336  PPC64 store quad instruction (stq) is not supposed to change [..]
    960 339433  ppc64 lxvw4x instruction uses four 32-byte loads
    961 339645  Use correct tag names in sys_getdents/64 wrappers
    962 339706  Fix false positive for ioctl(TIOCSIG) on linux
    963 339721  assertion 'check_sibling == sibling' failed in readdwarf3.c ...
    964 339853  arm64 times syscall unknown
    965 339855  arm64 unhandled getsid/setsid syscalls
    966 339858  arm64 dmb sy not implemented
    967 339926  Unhandled instruction 0x1E674001 (frintx) on aarm64
    968 339927  Unhandled instruction 0x9E7100C6 (fcvtmu) on aarch64
    969 339938  disInstr(arm64): unhandled instruction 0x4F8010A4 (fmla)
    970         == 339950
    971 339940  arm64: unhandled syscall: 83 (sys_fdatasync) + patch
    972 340033  arm64: unhandled insn dmb ishld and some other isb-dmb-dsb variants
    973 340028  unhandled syscalls for arm64 (msync, pread64, setreuid and setregid)
    974 340036  arm64: Unhandled instruction ld4 (multiple structures, no offset)
    975 340236  arm64: unhandled syscalls: mknodat, fchdir, chroot, fchownat
    976 340509  arm64: unhandled instruction fcvtas
    977 340630  arm64: fchmod (52) and fchown (55) syscalls not recognized
    978 340632  arm64: unhandled instruction fcvtas
    979 340722  Resolve "UNKNOWN attrlist flags 0:0x10000000"
    980 340725  AVX2: Incorrect decoding of vpbroadcast{b,w} reg,reg forms
    981 340788  warning: unhandled syscall: 318 (getrandom)
    982 340807  disInstr(arm): unhandled instruction: 0xEE989B20
    983 340856  disInstr(arm64): unhandled instruction 0x1E634C45 (fcsel)
    984 340922  arm64: unhandled getgroups/setgroups syscalls
    985 350251  Fix typo in VEX utility program (test_main.c).
    986 350407  arm64: unhandled instruction ucvtf (vector, integer)
    987 350809  none/tests/async-sigs breaks when run under cron on Solaris
    988 350811  update README.solaris after r15445
    989 350813  Use handwritten memcheck assembly helpers on x86/Solaris [..]
    990 350854  strange code in VG_(load_ELF)()
    991 351140  arm64 syscalls setuid (146) and setresgid (149) not implemented
    992 n-i-bz  DRD and Helgrind: Handle Imbe_CancelReservation (clrex on ARM)
    993 n-i-bz  Add missing ]] to terminate CDATA.
    994 n-i-bz  Glibc versions prior to 2.5 do not define PTRACE_GETSIGINFO
    995 n-i-bz  Enable sys_fadvise64_64 on arm32.
    996 n-i-bz  Add test cases for all remaining AArch64 SIMD, FP and memory insns.
    997 n-i-bz  Add test cases for all known arm64 load/store instructions.
    998 n-i-bz  PRE(sys_openat): when checking whether ARG1 == VKI_AT_FDCWD [..]
    999 n-i-bz  Add detection of old ppc32 magic instructions from bug 278808.
   1000 n-i-bz  exp-dhat: Implement missing function "dh_malloc_usable_size".
   1001 n-i-bz  arm64: Implement "fcvtpu w, s".
   1002 n-i-bz  arm64: implement ADDP and various others
   1003 n-i-bz  arm64: Implement {S,U}CVTF (scalar, fixedpt).
   1004 n-i-bz  arm64: enable FCVT{A,N}S X,S.
   1005 
   1006 (3.10.1: 25 November 2014, vex r3026, valgrind r14785)
   1007 
   1008 
   1009 
   1010 Release 3.10.0 (10 September 2014)
   1011 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   1012 
   1013 3.10.0 is a feature release with many improvements and the usual
   1014 collection of bug fixes.
   1015 
   1016 This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM32/Linux, ARM64/Linux,
   1017 PPC32/Linux, PPC64BE/Linux, PPC64LE/Linux, S390X/Linux, MIPS32/Linux,
   1018 MIPS64/Linux, ARM/Android, MIPS32/Android, X86/Android, X86/MacOSX 10.9
   1019 and AMD64/MacOSX 10.9.  Support for MacOSX 10.8 and 10.9 is
   1020 significantly improved relative to the 3.9.0 release.
   1021 
   1022 * ================== PLATFORM CHANGES =================
   1023 
   1024 * Support for the 64-bit ARM Architecture (AArch64 ARMv8).  This port
   1025   is mostly complete, and is usable, but some SIMD instructions are as
   1026   yet unsupported.
   1027 
   1028 * Support for little-endian variant of the 64-bit POWER architecture.
   1029 
   1030 * Support for Android on MIPS32.
   1031 
   1032 * Support for 64bit FPU on MIPS32 platforms.
   1033 
   1034 * Both 32- and 64-bit executables are supported on MacOSX 10.8 and 10.9.
   1035 
   1036 * Configuration for and running on Android targets has changed.
   1037   See README.android in the source tree for details.
   1038 
   1039 * ================== DEPRECATED FEATURES =================
   1040 
   1041 * --db-attach is now deprecated and will be removed in the next
   1042   valgrind feature release.  The built-in GDB server capabilities are
   1043   superior and should be used instead. Learn more here:
   1044   http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/manual-core-adv.html#manual-core-adv.gdbserver
   1045 
   1046 * ==================== TOOL CHANGES ====================
   1047 
   1048 * Memcheck:
   1049 
   1050   - Client code can now selectively disable and re-enable reporting of
   1051     invalid address errors in specific ranges using the new client
   1052     requests VALGRIND_DISABLE_ADDR_ERROR_REPORTING_IN_RANGE and
   1053     VALGRIND_ENABLE_ADDR_ERROR_REPORTING_IN_RANGE.
   1054 
   1055   - Leak checker: there is a new leak check heuristic called
   1056     "length64".  This is used to detect interior pointers pointing 8
   1057     bytes inside a block, on the assumption that the first 8 bytes
   1058     holds the value "block size - 8".  This is used by
   1059     sqlite3MemMalloc, for example.
   1060 
   1061   - Checking of system call parameters: if a syscall parameter
   1062     (e.g. bind struct sockaddr, sendmsg struct msghdr, ...) has
   1063     several fields not initialised, an error is now reported for each
   1064     field. Previously, an error was reported only for the first
   1065     uninitialised field.
   1066 
   1067   - Mismatched alloc/free checking: a new flag
   1068     --show-mismatched-frees=no|yes [yes] makes it possible to turn off
   1069     such checks if necessary.
   1070 
   1071 * Helgrind:
   1072 
   1073   - Improvements to error messages:
   1074 
   1075     o Race condition error message involving heap allocated blocks also
   1076       show the thread number that allocated the raced-on block.
   1077 
   1078     o All locks referenced by an error message are now announced.
   1079       Previously, some error messages only showed the lock addresses.
   1080 
   1081     o The message indicating where a lock was first observed now also
   1082       describes the address/location of the lock.
   1083 
   1084   - Helgrind now understands the Ada task termination rules and
   1085     creates a happens-before relationship between a terminated task
   1086     and its master.  This avoids some false positives and avoids a big
   1087     memory leak when a lot of Ada tasks are created and terminated.
   1088     The interceptions are only activated with forthcoming releases of
   1089     gnatpro >= 7.3.0w-20140611 and gcc >= 5.0.
   1090 
   1091   - A new GDB server monitor command "info locks" giving the list of
   1092     locks, their location, and their status.
   1093 
   1094 * Callgrind:
   1095 
   1096   - callgrind_control now supports the --vgdb-prefix argument,
   1097     which is needed if valgrind was started with this same argument.
   1098 
   1099 * ==================== OTHER CHANGES ====================
   1100 
   1101 * Unwinding through inlined function calls.  Stack unwinding can now
   1102   make use of Dwarf3 inlined-unwind information if it is available.
   1103   The practical effect is that inlined calls become visible in stack
   1104   traces.  The suppression matching machinery has been adjusted
   1105   accordingly.  This is controlled by the new option
   1106   --read-inline-info=yes|no.  Currently this is enabled by default
   1107   only on Linux and Android targets and only for the tools Memcheck,
   1108   Helgrind and DRD.
   1109 
   1110 * Valgrind can now read EXIDX unwind information on 32-bit ARM
   1111   targets.  If an object contains both CFI and EXIDX unwind
   1112   information, Valgrind will prefer the CFI over the EXIDX.  This
   1113   facilitates unwinding through system libraries on arm-android
   1114   targets.
   1115 
   1116 * Address description logic has been improved and is now common
   1117   between Memcheck and Helgrind, resulting in better address
   1118   descriptions for some kinds of error messages.
   1119 
   1120 * Error messages about dubious arguments (eg, to malloc or calloc) are
   1121   output like other errors.  This means that they can be suppressed
   1122   and they have a stack trace.
   1123 
   1124 * The C++ demangler has been updated for better C++11 support.
   1125 
   1126 * New and modified GDB server monitor features:
   1127 
   1128   - Thread local variables/storage (__thread) can now be displayed.
   1129 
   1130   - The GDB server monitor command "v.info location <address>"
   1131     displays information about an address.  The information produced
   1132     depends on the tool and on the options given to valgrind.
   1133     Possibly, the following are described: global variables, local
   1134     (stack) variables, allocated or freed blocks, ...
   1135 
   1136   - The option "--vgdb-stop-at=event1,event2,..." allows the user to
   1137     ask the GDB server to stop at the start of program execution, at
   1138     the end of the program execution and on Valgrind internal errors.
   1139 
   1140   - A new monitor command "v.info stats" shows various Valgrind core
   1141     and tool statistics.
   1142 
   1143   - A new monitor command "v.set hostvisibility" allows the GDB server
   1144     to provide access to Valgrind internal host status/memory.
   1145 
   1146 * A new option "--aspace-minaddr=<address>" can in some situations
   1147   allow the use of more memory by decreasing the address above which
   1148   Valgrind maps memory.  It can also be used to solve address
   1149   conflicts with system libraries by increasing the default value.
   1150   See user manual for details.
   1151 
   1152 * The amount of memory used by Valgrind to store debug info (unwind
   1153   info, line number information and symbol data) has been
   1154   significantly reduced, even though Valgrind now reads more
   1155   information in order to support unwinding of inlined function calls.
   1156 
   1157 * Dwarf3 handling with --read-var-info=yes has been improved:
   1158 
   1159   - Ada and C struct containing VLAs no longer cause a "bad DIE" error
   1160 
   1161   - Code compiled with
   1162     -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -Wl,--gc-sections
   1163     no longer causes assertion failures.
   1164 
   1165 * Improved checking for the --sim-hints= and --kernel-variant=
   1166   options.  Unknown strings are now detected and reported to the user
   1167   as a usage error.
   1168 
   1169 * The semantics of stack start/end boundaries in the valgrind.h
   1170   VALGRIND_STACK_REGISTER client request has been clarified and
   1171   documented.  The convention is that start and end are respectively
   1172   the lowest and highest addressable bytes of the stack.
   1173 
   1174 * ==================== FIXED BUGS ====================
   1175 
   1176 The following bugs have been fixed or resolved.  Note that "n-i-bz"
   1177 stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
   1178 but never got a bugzilla entry.  We encourage you to file bugs in
   1179 bugzilla (https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=valgrind) rather
   1180 than mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that
   1181 are not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
   1182 
   1183 To see details of a given bug, visit
   1184   https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
   1185 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed below.
   1186 
   1187 175819  Support for ipv6 socket reporting with --track-fds
   1188 232510  make distcheck fails
   1189 249435  Analyzing wine programs with callgrind triggers a crash
   1190 278972  support for inlined function calls in stacktraces and suppression
   1191         == 199144
   1192 291310  FXSAVE instruction marks memory as undefined on amd64
   1193 303536  ioctl for SIOCETHTOOL (ethtool(8)) isn't wrapped
   1194 308729  vex x86->IR: unhandled instruction bytes 0xf 0x5 (syscall) 
   1195 315199  vgcore file for threaded app does not show which thread crashed
   1196 315952  tun/tap ioctls are not supported
   1197 323178  Unhandled instruction: PLDW register (ARM) 
   1198 323179  Unhandled instruction: PLDW immediate (ARM)
   1199 324050  Helgrind: SEGV because of unaligned stack when using movdqa
   1200 325110  Add test-cases for Power ISA 2.06 insns: divdo/divdo. and divduo/divduo.
   1201 325124  [MIPSEL] Compilation error
   1202 325477  Phase 4 support for IBM Power ISA 2.07
   1203 325538  cavium octeon mips64, valgrind reported "dumping core" [...]
   1204 325628  Phase 5 support for IBM Power ISA 2.07
   1205 325714  Empty vgcore but RLIMIT_CORE is big enough (too big) 
   1206 325751  Missing the two privileged Power PC Transactional Memory Instructions
   1207 325816  Phase 6 support for IBM Power ISA 2.07
   1208 325856  Make SGCheck fail gracefully on unsupported platforms
   1209 326026  Iop names for count leading zeros/sign bits incorrectly imply [..]
   1210 326436  DRD: False positive in libstdc++ std::list::push_back
   1211 326444  Cavium MIPS Octeon Specific Load Indexed Instructions
   1212 326462  Refactor vgdb to isolate invoker stuff into separate module
   1213 326469  amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0x63 0xC1 0xE (pcmpistri 0x0E)
   1214 326623  DRD: false positive conflict report in a field assignment
   1215 326724  Valgrind does not compile on OSX 1.9 Mavericks
   1216 326816  Intercept for __strncpy_sse2_unaligned missing?
   1217 326921  coregrind fails to compile m_trampoline.S with MIPS/Linux port of V
   1218 326983  Clear direction flag after tests on amd64.
   1219 327212  Do not prepend the current directory to absolute path names.
   1220 327223  Support for Cavium MIPS Octeon Atomic and Count Instructions
   1221 327238  Callgrind Assertion 'passed <= last_bb->cjmp_count' failed
   1222 327284  s390x: Fix translation of the risbg instruction
   1223 327639  vex amd64->IR pcmpestri SSE4.2 instruction is unsupported 0x34
   1224 327837  dwz compressed alternate .debug_info and .debug_str not read correctly
   1225 327916  DW_TAG_typedef may have no name
   1226 327943  s390x: add a redirection for the 'index' function
   1227 328100  XABORT not implemented
   1228 328205  Implement additional Xen hypercalls
   1229 328454  add support Backtraces with ARM unwind tables (EXIDX)
   1230 328455  s390x: SIGILL after emitting wrong register pair for ldxbr
   1231 328711  valgrind.1 manpage "memcheck options" section is badly generated
   1232 328878  vex amd64->IR pcmpestri SSE4.2 instruction is unsupported 0x14
   1233 329612  Incorrect handling of AT_BASE for image execution 
   1234 329694  clang warns about using uninitialized variable 
   1235 329956  valgrind crashes when lmw/stmw instructions are used on ppc64
   1236 330228  mmap must align to VKI_SHMLBA on mips32
   1237 330257  LLVM does not support `-mno-dynamic-no-pic` option
   1238 330319  amd64->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0xF 0x1 0xD5 (xend)
   1239 330459  --track-fds=yes doesn't track eventfds
   1240 330469  Add clock_adjtime syscall support
   1241 330594  Missing sysalls on PowerPC / uClibc
   1242 330622  Add test to regression suite for POWER instruction: dcbzl
   1243 330939  Support for AMD's syscall instruction on x86
   1244         == 308729
   1245 330941  Typo in PRE(poll) syscall wrapper
   1246 331057  unhandled instruction: 0xEEE01B20 (vfma.f64) (has patch)
   1247 331254  Fix expected output for memcheck/tests/dw4
   1248 331255  Fix race condition in test none/tests/coolo_sigaction
   1249 331257  Fix type of jump buffer in test none/tests/faultstatus
   1250 331305  configure uses bash specific syntax
   1251 331337  s390x WARNING: unhandled syscall: 326 (dup3)
   1252 331380  Syscall param timer_create(evp) points to uninitialised byte(s)
   1253 331476  Patch to handle ioctl 0x5422 on Linux (x86 and amd64)
   1254 331829  Unexpected ioctl opcode sign extension
   1255 331830  ppc64: WARNING: unhandled syscall: 96/97
   1256 331839  drd/tests/sem_open specifies invalid semaphore name 
   1257 331847  outcome of drd/tests/thread_name is nondeterministic
   1258 332037  Valgrind cannot handle Thumb "add pc, reg"
   1259 332055  drd asserts on platforms with VG_STACK_REDZONE_SZB == 0 and
   1260         consistency checks enabled
   1261 332263  intercepts for pthread_rwlock_timedrdlock and
   1262         pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock are incorrect
   1263 332265  drd could do with post-rwlock_init and pre-rwlock_destroy
   1264         client requests
   1265 332276  Implement additional Xen hypercalls
   1266 332658  ldrd.w r1, r2, [PC, #imm] does not adjust for 32bit alignment
   1267 332765  Fix ms_print to create temporary files in a proper directory
   1268 333072  drd: Add semaphore annotations
   1269 333145  Tests for missaligned PC+#imm access for arm
   1270 333228  AAarch64 Missing instruction encoding: mrs %[reg], ctr_el0
   1271 333230  AAarch64 missing instruction encodings: dc, ic, dsb.
   1272 333248  WARNING: unhandled syscall: unix:443
   1273 333428  ldr.w pc [rD, #imm] instruction leads to assertion
   1274 333501  cachegrind: assertion: Cache set count is not a power of two.
   1275         == 336577
   1276         == 292281
   1277 333666  Recognize MPX instructions and bnd prefix.
   1278 333788  Valgrind does not support the CDROM_DISC_STATUS ioctl (has patch)
   1279 333817  Valgrind reports the memory areas written to by the SG_IO
   1280         ioctl as untouched
   1281 334049  lzcnt fails silently (x86_32)
   1282 334384  Valgrind does not have support Little Endian support for
   1283         IBM POWER PPC 64
   1284 334585  recvmmsg unhandled (+patch) (arm)
   1285 334705  sendmsg and recvmsg should guard against bogus msghdr fields.
   1286 334727  Build fails with -Werror=format-security
   1287 334788  clarify doc about --log-file initial program directory
   1288 334834  PPC64 Little Endian support, patch 2
   1289 334836  PPC64 Little Endian support, patch 3 testcase fixes
   1290 334936  patch to fix false positives on alsa SNDRV_CTL_* ioctls
   1291 335034  Unhandled ioctl: HCIGETDEVLIST
   1292 335155  vgdb, fix error print statement.
   1293 335262  arm64: movi 8bit version is not supported
   1294 335263  arm64: dmb instruction is not implemented
   1295 335441  unhandled ioctl 0x8905 (SIOCATMARK) when running wine under valgrind
   1296 335496  arm64: sbc/abc instructions are not implemented
   1297 335554  arm64: unhandled instruction: abs
   1298 335564  arm64: unhandled instruction: fcvtpu  Xn, Sn
   1299 335735  arm64: unhandled instruction: cnt
   1300 335736  arm64: unhandled instruction: uaddlv
   1301 335848  arm64: unhandled instruction: {s,u}cvtf
   1302 335902  arm64: unhandled instruction: sli
   1303 335903  arm64: unhandled instruction: umull (vector)
   1304 336055  arm64: unhandled instruction: mov (element)
   1305 336062  arm64: unhandled instruction: shrn{,2}
   1306 336139  mip64: [...] valgrind hangs and spins on a single core [...]
   1307 336189  arm64: unhandled Instruction: mvn
   1308 336435  Valgrind hangs in pthread_spin_lock consuming 100% CPU
   1309 336619  valgrind --read-var-info=yes doesn't handle DW_TAG_restrict_type
   1310 336772  Make moans about unknown ioctls more informative
   1311 336957  Add a section about the Solaris/illumos port on the webpage
   1312 337094  ifunc wrapper is broken on ppc64
   1313 337285  fcntl commands F_OFD_SETLK, F_OFD_SETLKW, and F_OFD_GETLK not supported
   1314 337528  leak check heuristic for block prefixed by length as 64bit number
   1315 337740  Implement additional Xen hypercalls
   1316 337762  guest_arm64_toIR.c:4166 (dis_ARM64_load_store): Assertion `0' failed.
   1317 337766  arm64-linux: unhandled syscalls mlock (228) and mlockall (230)
   1318 337871  deprecate --db-attach
   1319 338023  Add support for all V4L2/media ioctls
   1320 338024  inlined functions are not shown if DW_AT_ranges is used
   1321 338106  Add support for 'kcmp' syscall
   1322 338115  DRD: computed conflict set differs from actual after fork
   1323 338160  implement display of thread local storage in gdbsrv
   1324 338205  configure.ac and check for -Wno-tautological-compare
   1325 338300  coredumps are missing one byte of every segment
   1326 338445  amd64 vbit-test fails with unknown opcodes used by arm64 VEX
   1327 338499  --sim-hints parsing broken due to wrong order in tokens
   1328 338615  suppress glibc 2.20 optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7
   1329 338681  Unable to unwind through clone thread created on i386-linux
   1330 338698  race condition between gdbsrv and vgdb on startup
   1331 338703  helgrind on arm-linux gets false positives in dynamic loader
   1332 338791  alt dwz files can be relative of debug/main file
   1333 338878  on MacOS: assertion 'VG_IS_PAGE_ALIGNED(clstack_end+1)' failed
   1334 338932  build V-trunk with gcc-trunk
   1335 338974  glibc 2.20 changed size of struct sigaction sa_flags field on s390
   1336 345079  Fix build problems in VEX/useful/test_main.c
   1337 n-i-bz  Fix KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP ioctl handling
   1338 n-i-bz  s390x: Fix memory corruption for multithreaded applications
   1339 n-i-bz  vex arm->IR: allow PC as basereg in some LDRD cases
   1340 n-i-bz  internal error in Valgrind if vgdb transmit signals when ptrace invoked
   1341 n-i-bz  Fix mingw64 support in valgrind.h (dev@, 9 May 2014)
   1342 n-i-bz  drd manual: Document how to C++11 programs that use class "std::thread"
   1343 n-i-bz  Add command-line option --default-suppressions
   1344 n-i-bz  Add support for BLKDISCARDZEROES ioctl
   1345 n-i-bz  ppc32/64: fix a regression with the mtfsb0/mtfsb1 instructions
   1346 n-i-bz  Add support for	sys_pivot_root and sys_unshare
   1347 
   1348 (3.10.0.BETA1:  2 September 2014, vex r2940, valgrind r14428)
   1349 (3.10.0.BETA2:  8 September 2014, vex r2950, valgrind r14503)
   1350 (3.10.0:       10 September 2014, vex r2950, valgrind r14514)
   1351 
   1352 
   1353 
   1354 Release 3.9.0 (31 October 2013)
   1355 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   1356 3.9.0 is a feature release with many improvements and the usual
   1357 collection of bug fixes.
   1358 
   1359 This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM/Linux, PPC32/Linux,
   1360 PPC64/Linux, S390X/Linux, MIPS32/Linux, MIPS64/Linux, ARM/Android,
   1361 X86/Android, X86/MacOSX 10.7 and AMD64/MacOSX 10.7.  Support for
   1362 MacOSX 10.8 is significantly improved relative to the 3.8.0 release.
   1363 
   1364 * ================== PLATFORM CHANGES =================
   1365 
   1366 * Support for MIPS64 LE and BE running Linux.  Valgrind has been
   1367   tested on MIPS64 Debian Squeeze and Debian Wheezy distributions.
   1368 
   1369 * Support for MIPS DSP ASE on MIPS32 platforms.
   1370 
   1371 * Support for s390x Decimal Floating Point instructions on hosts that
   1372   have the DFP facility installed.
   1373 
   1374 * Support for POWER8 (Power ISA 2.07) instructions
   1375 
   1376 * Support for Intel AVX2 instructions.  This is available only on 64
   1377   bit code.
   1378 
   1379 * Initial support for Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions,
   1380   both RTM and HLE.
   1381 
   1382 * Initial support for Hardware Transactional Memory on POWER.
   1383 
   1384 * Improved support for MacOSX 10.8 (64-bit only).  Memcheck can now
   1385   run large GUI apps tolerably well.
   1386 
   1387 * ==================== TOOL CHANGES ====================
   1388 
   1389 * Memcheck:
   1390 
   1391   - Improvements in handling of vectorised code, leading to
   1392     significantly fewer false error reports.  You need to use the flag
   1393     --partial-loads-ok=yes to get the benefits of these changes.
   1394 
   1395   - Better control over the leak checker.  It is now possible to
   1396     specify which leak kinds (definite/indirect/possible/reachable)
   1397     should be displayed, which should be regarded as errors, and which
   1398     should be suppressed by a given leak suppression.  This is done
   1399     using the options --show-leak-kinds=kind1,kind2,..,
   1400     --errors-for-leak-kinds=kind1,kind2,.. and an optional
   1401     "match-leak-kinds:" line in suppression entries, respectively.
   1402 
   1403     Note that generated leak suppressions contain this new line and
   1404     are therefore more specific than in previous releases.  To get the
   1405     same behaviour as previous releases, remove the "match-leak-kinds:"
   1406     line from generated suppressions before using them.
   1407 
   1408   - Reduced "possible leak" reports from the leak checker by the use
   1409     of better heuristics.  The available heuristics provide detection
   1410     of valid interior pointers to std::stdstring, to new[] allocated
   1411     arrays with elements having destructors and to interior pointers
   1412     pointing to an inner part of a C++ object using multiple
   1413     inheritance.  They can be selected individually using the
   1414     option --leak-check-heuristics=heur1,heur2,...
   1415 
   1416   - Better control of stacktrace acquisition for heap-allocated
   1417     blocks.  Using the --keep-stacktraces option, it is possible to
   1418     control independently whether a stack trace is acquired for each
   1419     allocation and deallocation.  This can be used to create better
   1420     "use after free" errors or to decrease Valgrind's resource
   1421     consumption by recording less information.
   1422 
   1423   - Better reporting of leak suppression usage.  The list of used
   1424     suppressions (shown when the -v option is given) now shows, for
   1425     each leak suppressions, how many blocks and bytes it suppressed
   1426     during the last leak search.
   1427 
   1428 * Helgrind:
   1429 
   1430   - False errors resulting from the use of statically initialised
   1431     mutexes and condition variables (PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALISER, etc)
   1432     have been removed.
   1433 
   1434   - False errors resulting from the use of pthread_cond_waits that
   1435     timeout, have been removed.
   1436 
   1437 * ==================== OTHER CHANGES ====================
   1438 
   1439 * Some attempt to tune Valgrind's space requirements to the expected
   1440   capabilities of the target:
   1441 
   1442   - The default size of the translation cache has been reduced from 8
   1443     sectors to 6 on Android platforms, since each sector occupies
   1444     about 40MB when using Memcheck.
   1445 
   1446   - The default size of the translation cache has been increased to 16
   1447     sectors on all other platforms, reflecting the fact that large
   1448     applications require instrumentation and storage of huge amounts
   1449     of code.  For similar reasons, the number of memory mapped
   1450     segments that can be tracked has been increased by a factor of 6.
   1451 
   1452   - In all cases, the maximum number of sectors in the translation
   1453     cache can be controlled by the new flag --num-transtab-sectors.
   1454 
   1455 * Changes in how debug info (line numbers, etc) is read:
   1456 
   1457   - Valgrind no longer temporarily mmaps the entire object to read
   1458     from it.  Instead, reading is done through a small fixed sized
   1459     buffer.  This avoids virtual memory usage spikes when Valgrind
   1460     reads debuginfo from large shared objects.
   1461 
   1462   - A new experimental remote debug info server.  Valgrind can read
   1463     debug info from a different machine (typically, a build host)
   1464     where debuginfo objects are stored.  This can save a lot of time
   1465     and hassle when running Valgrind on resource-constrained targets
   1466     (phones, tablets) when the full debuginfo objects are stored
   1467     somewhere else.  This is enabled by the --debuginfo-server=
   1468     option.
   1469 
   1470   - Consistency checking between main and debug objects can be
   1471     disabled using the --allow-mismatched-debuginfo option.
   1472 
   1473 * Stack unwinding by stack scanning, on ARM.  Unwinding by stack
   1474   scanning can recover stack traces in some cases when the normal
   1475   unwind mechanisms fail.  Stack scanning is best described as "a
   1476   nasty, dangerous and misleading hack" and so is disabled by default.
   1477   Use --unw-stack-scan-thresh and --unw-stack-scan-frames to enable
   1478   and control it.
   1479 
   1480 * Detection and merging of recursive stack frame cycles.  When your
   1481   program has recursive algorithms, this limits the memory used by
   1482   Valgrind for recorded stack traces and avoids recording
   1483   uninteresting repeated calls.  This is controlled by the command
   1484   line option --merge-recursive-frame and by the monitor command
   1485   "v.set merge-recursive-frames".
   1486 
   1487 * File name and line numbers for used suppressions.  The list of used
   1488   suppressions (shown when the -v option is given) now shows, for each
   1489   used suppression, the file name and line number where the suppression
   1490   is defined.
   1491 
   1492 * New and modified GDB server monitor features:
   1493 
   1494   - valgrind.h has a new client request, VALGRIND_MONITOR_COMMAND,
   1495     that can be used to execute gdbserver monitor commands from the
   1496     client program.
   1497 
   1498   - A new monitor command, "v.info open_fds", that gives the list of
   1499     open file descriptors and additional details.
   1500 
   1501   - An optional message in the "v.info n_errs_found" monitor command,
   1502     for example "v.info n_errs_found test 1234 finished", allowing a
   1503     comment string to be added to the process output, perhaps for the
   1504     purpose of separating errors of different tests or test phases.
   1505 
   1506   - A new monitor command "v.info execontext" that shows information
   1507     about the stack traces recorded by Valgrind.
   1508 
   1509   - A new monitor command "v.do expensive_sanity_check_general" to run
   1510     some internal consistency checks.
   1511 
   1512 * New flag --sigill-diagnostics to control whether a diagnostic
   1513   message is printed when the JIT encounters an instruction it can't
   1514   translate.  The actual behavior -- delivery of SIGILL to the
   1515   application -- is unchanged.
   1516 
   1517 * The maximum amount of memory that Valgrind can use on 64 bit targets
   1518   has been increased from 32GB to 64GB.  This should make it possible
   1519   to run applications on Memcheck that natively require up to about 35GB.
   1520 
   1521 * ==================== FIXED BUGS ====================
   1522 
   1523 The following bugs have been fixed or resolved.  Note that "n-i-bz"
   1524 stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
   1525 but never got a bugzilla entry.  We encourage you to file bugs in
   1526 bugzilla (https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=valgrind) rather
   1527 than mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that
   1528 are not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
   1529 
   1530 To see details of a given bug, visit
   1531   https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
   1532 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed below.
   1533 
   1534 123837  system call: 4th argument is optional, depending on cmd
   1535 135425  memcheck should tell you where Freed blocks were Mallocd
   1536 164485  VG_N_SEGNAMES and VG_N_SEGMENTS are (still) too small
   1537 207815  Adds some of the drm ioctls to syswrap-linux.c 
   1538 251569  vex amd64->IR: 0xF 0x1 0xF9 0xBF 0x90 0xD0 0x3 0x0 (RDTSCP)
   1539 252955  Impossible to compile with ccache
   1540 253519  Memcheck reports auxv pointer accesses as invalid reads.
   1541 263034  Crash when loading some PPC64 binaries
   1542 269599  Increase deepest backtrace
   1543 274695  s390x: Support "compare to/from logical" instructions (z196)
   1544 275800  s390x: Autodetect cache info (part 2)
   1545 280271  Valgrind reports possible memory leaks on still-reachable std::string
   1546 284540  Memcheck shouldn't count suppressions matching still-reachable [..]
   1547 289578  Backtraces with ARM unwind tables (stack scan flags)
   1548 296311  Wrong stack traces due to -fomit-frame-pointer (x86) 
   1549 304832  ppc32: build failure
   1550 305431  Use find_buildid shdr fallback for separate .debug files
   1551 305728  Add support for AVX2 instructions
   1552 305948  ppc64: code generation for ShlD64 / ShrD64 asserts
   1553 306035  s390x: Fix IR generation for LAAG and friends
   1554 306054  s390x: Condition code computation for convert-to-int/logical
   1555 306098  s390x: alternate opcode form for convert to/from fixed
   1556 306587  Fix cache line detection from auxiliary vector for PPC.
   1557 306783  Mips unhandled syscall :  4025  /  4079  / 4182
   1558 307038  DWARF2 CFI reader: unhandled DW_OP_ opcode 0x8 (DW_OP_const1u et al)
   1559 307082  HG false positive: pthread_cond_destroy: destruction of unknown CV
   1560 307101  sys_capget second argument can be NULL
   1561 307103  sys_openat: If pathname is absolute, then dirfd is ignored.
   1562 307106  amd64->IR: f0 0f c0 02 (lock xadd byte)
   1563 307113  s390x: DFP support
   1564 307141  valgrind does't work in mips-linux system
   1565 307155  filter_gdb should filter out syscall-template.S T_PSEUDO
   1566 307285  x86_amd64 feature test for avx in test suite is wrong
   1567 307290  memcheck overlap testcase needs memcpy version filter
   1568 307463  Please add "&limit=0" to the "all open bugs" link
   1569 307465  --show-possibly-lost=no should reduce the error count / exit code
   1570 307557  Leaks on Mac OS X 10.7.5 libraries at ImageLoader::recursiveInit[..]
   1571 307729  pkgconfig support broken valgrind.pc
   1572 307828  Memcheck false errors SSE optimized wcscpy, wcscmp, wcsrchr, wcschr
   1573 307955  Building valgrind 3.7.0-r4 fails in Gentoo AMD64 when using clang
   1574 308089  Unhandled syscall on ppc64: prctl
   1575 308135  PPC32 MPC8xx has 16 bytes cache size
   1576 308321  testsuite memcheck filter interferes with gdb_filter 
   1577 308333 == 307106
   1578 308341  vgdb should report process exit (or fatal signal)
   1579 308427  s390 memcheck reports tsearch cjump/cmove depends on uninit
   1580 308495  Remove build dependency on installed Xen headers
   1581 308573  Internal error on 64-bit instruction executed in 32-bit mode
   1582 308626  == 308627
   1583 308627  pmovmskb validity bit propagation is imprecise
   1584 308644  vgdb command for having the info for the track-fds option
   1585 308711  give more info about aspacemgr and arenas in out_of_memory
   1586 308717  ARM: implement fixed-point VCVT.F64.[SU]32
   1587 308718  ARM implement SMLALBB family of instructions
   1588 308886  Missing support for PTRACE_SET/GETREGSET 
   1589 308930  syscall name_to_handle_at (303 on amd64) not handled
   1590 309229  V-bit tester does not report number of tests generated
   1591 309323  print unrecognized instuction on MIPS
   1592 309425  Provide a --sigill-diagnostics flag to suppress illegal [..]
   1593 309427  SSE optimized stpncpy trigger uninitialised value [..] errors
   1594 309430  Self hosting ppc64 encounters a vassert error on operand type
   1595 309600  valgrind is a bit confused about 0-sized sections
   1596 309823  Generate errors for still reachable blocks
   1597 309921  PCMPISTRI validity bit propagation is imprecise
   1598 309922  none/tests/ppc64/test_dfp5 sometimes fails
   1599 310169  The Iop_CmpORD class of Iops is not supported by the vbit checker.
   1600 310424  --read-var-info does not properly describe static variables 
   1601 310792  search additional path for debug symbols
   1602 310931  s390x: Message-security assist (MSA) instruction extension [..]
   1603 311100  PPC DFP implementation of the integer operands is inconsistent [..]
   1604 311318  ARM: "128-bit constant is not implemented" error message
   1605 311407  ssse3 bcopy (actually converted memcpy) causes invalid read [..]
   1606 311690  V crashes because it redirects branches inside of a redirected function
   1607 311880  x86_64: make regtest hangs at shell_valid1
   1608 311922  WARNING: unhandled syscall: 170
   1609 311933  == 251569
   1610 312171  ppc: insn selection for DFP
   1611 312571  Rounding mode call wrong for the DFP Iops [..]
   1612 312620  Change to Iop_D32toD64 [..] for s390 DFP support broke ppc [..]
   1613 312913  Dangling pointers error should also report the alloc stack trace
   1614 312980  Building on Mountain Lion generates some compiler warnings
   1615 313267  Adding MIPS64/Linux port to Valgrind
   1616 313348  == 251569
   1617 313354  == 251569
   1618 313811  Buffer overflow in assert_fail
   1619 314099  coverity pointed out error in VEX guest_ppc_toIR.c insn_suffix
   1620 314269  ppc: dead code in insn selection
   1621 314718  ARM: implement integer divide instruction (sdiv and udiv)
   1622 315345  cl-format.xml and callgrind/dump.c don't agree on using cfl= or cfi=
   1623 315441  sendmsg syscall should ignore unset msghdr msg_flags
   1624 315534  msgrcv inside a thread causes valgrind to hang (block)
   1625 315545  Assertion '(UChar*)sec->tt[tteNo].tcptr <= (UChar*)hcode' failed
   1626 315689  disInstr(thumb): unhandled instruction: 0xF852 0x0E10 (LDRT)
   1627 315738  disInstr(arm): unhandled instruction: 0xEEBE0BEE (vcvt.s32.f64)
   1628 315959  valgrind man page has bogus SGCHECK (and no BBV) OPTIONS section
   1629 316144  valgrind.1 manpage contains unknown ??? strings [..]
   1630 316145  callgrind command line options in manpage reference (unknown) [..]
   1631 316145  callgrind command line options in manpage reference [..]
   1632 316181  drd: Fixed a 4x slowdown for certain applications
   1633 316503  Valgrind does not support SSE4 "movntdqa" instruction
   1634 316535  Use of |signed int| instead of |size_t| in valgrind messages
   1635 316696   fluidanimate program of parsec 2.1 stuck 
   1636 316761  syscall open_by_handle_at (304 on amd64, 342 on x86) not handled
   1637 317091  Use -Wl,-Ttext-segment when static linking if possible [..]
   1638 317186  "Impossible happens" when occurs VCVT instruction on ARM
   1639 317318  Support for Threading Building Blocks "scalable_malloc"
   1640 317444  amd64->IR: 0xC4 0x41 0x2C 0xC2 0xD2 0x8 (vcmpeq_uqps)
   1641 317461  Fix BMI assembler configure check and avx2/bmi/fma vgtest prereqs
   1642 317463  bmi testcase IR SANITY CHECK FAILURE
   1643 317506  memcheck/tests/vbit-test fails with unknown opcode after [..]
   1644 318050  libmpiwrap fails to compile with out-of-source build
   1645 318203  setsockopt handling needs to handle SOL_SOCKET/SO_ATTACH_FILTER
   1646 318643  annotate_trace_memory tests infinite loop on arm and ppc [..]
   1647 318773  amd64->IR: 0xF3 0x48 0x0F 0xBC 0xC2 0xC3 0x66 0x0F
   1648 318929  Crash with: disInstr(thumb): 0xF321 0x0001 (ssat16)
   1649 318932  Add missing PPC64 and PPC32 system call support
   1650 319235  --db-attach=yes is broken with Yama (ptrace scoping) enabled
   1651 319395  Crash with unhandled instruction on STRT (Thumb) instructions
   1652 319494  VEX Makefile-gcc standalone build update after r2702
   1653 319505  [MIPSEL] Crash: unhandled UNRAY operator.
   1654 319858  disInstr(thumb): unhandled instruction on instruction STRBT
   1655 319932  disInstr(thumb): unhandled instruction on instruction STRHT
   1656 320057  Problems when we try to mmap more than 12 memory pages on MIPS32
   1657 320063  Memory from PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA is reported uninitialised
   1658 320083  disInstr(thumb): unhandled instruction on instruction LDRBT
   1659 320116  bind on AF_BLUETOOTH produces warnings because of sockaddr_rc padding
   1660 320131  WARNING: unhandled syscall: 369 on ARM (prlimit64)
   1661 320211  Stack buffer overflow in ./coregrind/m_main.c with huge TMPDIR
   1662 320661  vgModuleLocal_read_elf_debug_info(): "Assertion '!di->soname'
   1663 320895  add fanotify support (patch included)
   1664 320998  vex amd64->IR pcmpestri and pcmpestrm SSE4.2 instruction
   1665 321065  Valgrind updates for Xen 4.3
   1666 321148  Unhandled instruction: PLI (Thumb 1, 2, 3)
   1667 321363  Unhandled instruction: SSAX (ARM + Thumb)
   1668 321364  Unhandled instruction: SXTAB16 (ARM + Thumb)
   1669 321466  Unhandled instruction: SHASX (ARM + Thumb)
   1670 321467  Unhandled instruction: SHSAX (ARM + Thumb)
   1671 321468  Unhandled instruction: SHSUB16 (ARM + Thumb)
   1672 321619  Unhandled instruction: SHSUB8 (ARM + Thumb)
   1673 321620  Unhandled instruction: UASX (ARM + Thumb)
   1674 321621  Unhandled instruction: USAX (ARM + Thumb)
   1675 321692  Unhandled instruction: UQADD16 (ARM + Thumb)
   1676 321693  Unhandled instruction: LDRSBT (Thumb)
   1677 321694  Unhandled instruction: UQASX (ARM + Thumb)
   1678 321696  Unhandled instruction: UQSAX (Thumb + ARM)
   1679 321697  Unhandled instruction: UHASX (ARM + Thumb)
   1680 321703  Unhandled instruction: UHSAX (ARM + Thumb)
   1681 321704  Unhandled instruction: REVSH (ARM + Thumb)
   1682 321730  Add cg_diff and cg_merge man pages
   1683 321738  Add vgdb and valgrind-listener man pages
   1684 321814  == 315545
   1685 321891  Unhandled instruction: LDRHT (Thumb)
   1686 321960  pthread_create() then alloca() causing invalid stack write errors
   1687 321969  ppc32 and ppc64 don't support [lf]setxattr
   1688 322254  Show threadname together with tid if set by application
   1689 322294  Add initial support for IBM Power ISA 2.07
   1690 322368  Assertion failure in wqthread_hijack under OS X 10.8
   1691 322563  vex mips->IR: 0x70 0x83 0xF0 0x3A
   1692 322807  VALGRIND_PRINTF_BACKTRACE writes callstack to xml and text to stderr
   1693 322851  0bXXX binary literal syntax is not standard 
   1694 323035  Unhandled instruction: LDRSHT(Thumb)
   1695 323036  Unhandled instruction: SMMLS (ARM and Thumb)
   1696 323116  The memcheck/tests/ppc64/power_ISA2_05.c fails to build [..]
   1697 323175  Unhandled instruction: SMLALD (ARM + Thumb)
   1698 323177  Unhandled instruction: SMLSLD (ARM + Thumb)
   1699 323432  Calling pthread_cond_destroy() or pthread_mutex_destroy() [..]
   1700 323437  Phase 2 support for IBM Power ISA 2.07
   1701 323713  Support mmxext (integer sse) subset on i386 (athlon)
   1702 323803  Transactional memory instructions are not supported for Power
   1703 323893  SSE3 not available on amd cpus in valgrind
   1704 323905  Probable false positive from Valgrind/drd on close()
   1705 323912  valgrind.h header isn't compatible for mingw64
   1706 324047  Valgrind doesn't support [LDR,ST]{S}[B,H]T ARM instructions
   1707 324149  helgrind: When pthread_cond_timedwait returns ETIMEDOUT [..]
   1708 324181  mmap does not handle MAP_32BIT
   1709 324227  memcheck false positive leak when a thread calls exit+block [..]
   1710 324421  Support for fanotify API on ARM architecture
   1711 324514  gdbserver monitor cmd output behaviour consistency [..]
   1712 324518  ppc64: Emulation of dcbt instructions does not handle [..]
   1713 324546  none/tests/ppc32 test_isa_2_07_part2 requests -m64
   1714 324582  When access is made to freed memory, report both allocation [..]
   1715 324594  Fix overflow computation for Power ISA 2.06 insns: mulldo/mulldo.
   1716 324765  ppc64: illegal instruction when executing none/tests/ppc64/jm-misc
   1717 324816  Incorrect VEX implementation for xscvspdp/xvcvspdp for SNaN inputs
   1718 324834  Unhandled instructions in Microsoft C run-time for x86_64
   1719 324894  Phase 3 support for IBM Power ISA 2.07
   1720 326091  drd: Avoid false race reports from optimized strlen() impls
   1721 326113  valgrind libvex hwcaps error on AMD64 
   1722 n-i-bz  Some wrong command line options could be ignored
   1723 n-i-bz  patch to allow fair-sched on android
   1724 n-i-bz  report error for vgdb snapshot requested before execution
   1725 n-i-bz  same as 303624 (fixed in 3.8.0), but for x86 android
   1726 
   1727 (3.9.0: 31 October 2013, vex r2796, valgrind r13708)
   1728 
   1729 
   1730 
   1731 Release 3.8.1 (19 September 2012)
   1732 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   1733 3.8.1 is a bug fix release.  It fixes some assertion failures in 3.8.0
   1734 that occur moderately frequently in real use cases, adds support for
   1735 some missing instructions on ARM, and fixes a deadlock condition on
   1736 MacOSX.  If you package or deliver 3.8.0 for others to use, you might
   1737 want to consider upgrading to 3.8.1 instead.
   1738 
   1739 The following bugs have been fixed or resolved.  Note that "n-i-bz"
   1740 stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
   1741 but never got a bugzilla entry.  We encourage you to file bugs in
   1742 bugzilla (https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=valgrind) rather
   1743 than mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that
   1744 are not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
   1745 
   1746 To see details of a given bug, visit
   1747   https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
   1748 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed below.
   1749 
   1750 284004  == 301281
   1751 289584  Unhandled instruction: 0xF 0x29 0xE5 (MOVAPS)
   1752 295808  amd64->IR: 0xF3 0xF 0xBC 0xC0 (TZCNT)
   1753 298281  wcslen causes false(?) uninitialised value warnings
   1754 301281  valgrind hangs on OS X when the process calls system()
   1755 304035  disInstr(arm): unhandled instruction 0xE1023053
   1756 304867  implement MOVBE instruction in x86 mode
   1757 304980  Assertion 'lo <= hi' failed in vgModuleLocal_find_rx_mapping
   1758 305042  amd64: implement 0F 7F encoding of movq between two registers
   1759 305199  ARM: implement QDADD and QDSUB
   1760 305321  amd64->IR: 0xF 0xD 0xC (prefetchw)
   1761 305513  killed by fatal signal: SIGSEGV
   1762 305690  DRD reporting invalid semaphore when sem_trywait fails
   1763 305926  Invalid alignment checks for some AVX instructions
   1764 306297  disInstr(thumb): unhandled instruction 0xE883 0x000C
   1765 306310  3.8.0 release tarball missing some files
   1766 306612  RHEL 6 glibc-2.X default suppressions need /lib*/libc-*patterns
   1767 306664  vex amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0x62 0xD1 0x46 0x66 0xF
   1768 n-i-bz  shmat of a segment > 4Gb does not work 
   1769 n-i-bz  simulate_control_c script wrong USR1 signal number on mips
   1770 n-i-bz  vgdb ptrace calls wrong on mips [...]
   1771 n-i-bz  Fixes for more MPI false positives
   1772 n-i-bz  exp-sgcheck's memcpy causes programs to segfault
   1773 n-i-bz  OSX build w/ clang: asserts at startup
   1774 n-i-bz  Incorrect undef'dness prop for Iop_DPBtoBCD and Iop_BCDtoDPB
   1775 n-i-bz  fix a couple of union tag-vs-field mixups
   1776 n-i-bz  OSX: use __NR_poll_nocancel rather than __NR_poll
   1777 
   1778 The following bugs were fixed in 3.8.0 but not listed in this NEWS
   1779 file at the time:
   1780 
   1781 254088  Valgrind should know about UD2 instruction
   1782 301280  == 254088
   1783 301902  == 254088
   1784 304754  NEWS blows TeX's little mind
   1785 
   1786 (3.8.1: 19 September 2012, vex r2537, valgrind r12996)
   1787 
   1788 
   1789 
   1790 Release 3.8.0 (10 August 2012)
   1791 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   1792 3.8.0 is a feature release with many improvements and the usual
   1793 collection of bug fixes.
   1794 
   1795 This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM/Linux, PPC32/Linux,
   1796 PPC64/Linux, S390X/Linux, MIPS/Linux, ARM/Android, X86/Android,
   1797 X86/MacOSX 10.6/10.7 and AMD64/MacOSX 10.6/10.7.  Support for recent
   1798 distros and toolchain components (glibc 2.16, gcc 4.7) has been added.
   1799 There is initial support for MacOSX 10.8, but it is not usable for
   1800 serious work at present.
   1801 
   1802 * ================== PLATFORM CHANGES =================
   1803 
   1804 * Support for MIPS32 platforms running Linux.  Valgrind has been
   1805   tested on MIPS32 and MIPS32r2 platforms running different Debian
   1806   Squeeze and MeeGo distributions.  Both little-endian and big-endian
   1807   cores are supported.  The tools Memcheck, Massif and Lackey have
   1808   been tested and are known to work. See README.mips for more details.
   1809 
   1810 * Preliminary support for Android running on x86.
   1811 
   1812 * Preliminary (as-yet largely unusable) support for MacOSX 10.8.
   1813 
   1814 * Support for Intel AVX instructions and for AES instructions.  This
   1815   support is available only for 64 bit code.
   1816 
   1817 * Support for POWER Decimal Floating Point instructions.
   1818 
   1819 * ==================== TOOL CHANGES ====================
   1820 
   1821 * Non-libc malloc implementations are now supported.  This is useful
   1822   for tools that replace malloc (Memcheck, Massif, DRD, Helgrind).
   1823   Using the new option --soname-synonyms, such tools can be informed
   1824   that the malloc implementation is either linked statically into the
   1825   executable, or is present in some other shared library different
   1826   from libc.so.  This makes it possible to process statically linked
   1827   programs, and programs using other malloc libraries, for example
   1828   TCMalloc or JEMalloc.
   1829 
   1830 * For tools that provide their own replacement for malloc et al, the
   1831   option --redzone-size=<number> allows users to specify the size of
   1832   the padding blocks (redzones) added before and after each client
   1833   allocated block.  Smaller redzones decrease the memory needed by
   1834   Valgrind.  Bigger redzones increase the chance to detect blocks
   1835   overrun or underrun.  Prior to this change, the redzone size was
   1836   hardwired to 16 bytes in Memcheck.
   1837 
   1838 * Memcheck:
   1839 
   1840   - The leak_check GDB server monitor command now can
   1841     control the maximum nr of loss records to output.
   1842 
   1843   - Reduction of memory use for applications allocating
   1844     many blocks and/or having many partially defined bytes.
   1845 
   1846   - Addition of GDB server monitor command 'block_list' that lists
   1847     the addresses/sizes of the blocks of a leak search loss record.
   1848 
   1849   - Addition of GDB server monitor command 'who_points_at' that lists
   1850     the locations pointing at a block.
   1851 
   1852   - If a redzone size > 0 is given, VALGRIND_MALLOCLIKE_BLOCK now will
   1853     detect an invalid access of these redzones, by marking them
   1854     noaccess.  Similarly, if a redzone size is given for a memory
   1855     pool, VALGRIND_MEMPOOL_ALLOC will mark the redzones no access.
   1856     This still allows to find some bugs if the user has forgotten to
   1857     mark the pool superblock noaccess.
   1858 
   1859   - Performance of memory leak check has been improved, especially in
   1860     cases where there are many leaked blocks and/or many suppression
   1861     rules used to suppress leak reports.
   1862 
   1863   - Reduced noise (false positive) level on MacOSX 10.6/10.7, due to
   1864     more precise analysis, which is important for LLVM/Clang
   1865     generated code.  This is at the cost of somewhat reduced
   1866     performance.  Note there is no change to analysis precision or
   1867     costs on Linux targets.
   1868 
   1869 * DRD:
   1870 
   1871   - Added even more facilities that can help finding the cause of a data
   1872     race, namely the command-line option --ptrace-addr and the macro
   1873     DRD_STOP_TRACING_VAR(x). More information can be found in the manual.
   1874 
   1875   - Fixed a subtle bug that could cause false positive data race reports.
   1876 
   1877 * ==================== OTHER CHANGES ====================
   1878 
   1879 * The C++ demangler has been updated so as to work well with C++ 
   1880   compiled by up to at least g++ 4.6.
   1881 
   1882 * Tool developers can make replacement/wrapping more flexible thanks
   1883   to the new option --soname-synonyms.  This was reported above, but
   1884   in fact is very general and applies to all function
   1885   replacement/wrapping, not just to malloc-family functions.
   1886 
   1887 * Round-robin scheduling of threads can be selected, using the new
   1888   option --fair-sched= yes.  Prior to this change, the pipe-based
   1889   thread serialisation mechanism (which is still the default) could
   1890   give very unfair scheduling.  --fair-sched=yes improves
   1891   responsiveness of interactive multithreaded applications, and
   1892   improves repeatability of results from the thread checkers Helgrind
   1893   and DRD.
   1894 
   1895 * For tool developers: support to run Valgrind on Valgrind has been
   1896   improved.  We can now routinely Valgrind on Helgrind or Memcheck.
   1897 
   1898 * gdbserver now shows the float shadow registers as integer
   1899   rather than float values, as the shadow values are mostly
   1900   used as bit patterns.
   1901 
   1902 * Increased limit for the --num-callers command line flag to 500.
   1903 
   1904 * Performance improvements for error matching when there are many
   1905   suppression records in use.
   1906 
   1907 * Improved support for DWARF4 debugging information (bug 284184).
   1908 
   1909 * Initial support for DWZ compressed Dwarf debug info.
   1910 
   1911 * Improved control over the IR optimiser's handling of the tradeoff
   1912   between performance and precision of exceptions.  Specifically,
   1913   --vex-iropt-precise-memory-exns has been removed and replaced by
   1914   --vex-iropt-register-updates, with extended functionality.  This
   1915   allows the Valgrind gdbserver to always show up to date register
   1916   values to GDB.
   1917 
   1918 * Modest performance gains through the use of translation chaining for
   1919   JIT-generated code.
   1920 
   1921 * ==================== FIXED BUGS ====================
   1922 
   1923 The following bugs have been fixed or resolved.  Note that "n-i-bz"
   1924 stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
   1925 but never got a bugzilla entry.  We encourage you to file bugs in
   1926 bugzilla (https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=valgrind) rather
   1927 than mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that
   1928 are not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
   1929 
   1930 To see details of a given bug, visit
   1931   https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
   1932 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed below.
   1933 
   1934 197914  Building valgrind from svn now requires automake-1.10
   1935 203877  increase to 16Mb maximum allowed alignment for memalign et al
   1936 219156  Handle statically linked malloc or other malloc lib (e.g. tcmalloc) 
   1937 247386  make perf does not run all performance tests
   1938 270006  Valgrind scheduler unfair 
   1939 270777  Adding MIPS/Linux port to Valgrind
   1940 270796  s390x: Removed broken support for the TS insn
   1941 271438  Fix configure for proper SSE4.2 detection
   1942 273114  s390x: Support TR, TRE, TROO, TROT, TRTO, and TRTT instructions
   1943 273475  Add support for AVX instructions
   1944 274078  improved configure logic for mpicc
   1945 276993  fix mremap 'no thrash checks' 
   1946 278313  Fedora 15/x64: err read debug info with --read-var-info=yes flag
   1947 281482  memcheck incorrect byte allocation count in realloc() for silly argument
   1948 282230  group allocator for small fixed size, use it for MC_Chunk/SEc vbit
   1949 283413  Fix wrong sanity check
   1950 283671  Robustize alignment computation in LibVEX_Alloc
   1951 283961  Adding support for some HCI IOCTLs
   1952 284124  parse_type_DIE: confused by: DWARF 4
   1953 284864  == 273475 (Add support for AVX instructions)
   1954 285219  Too-restrictive constraints for Thumb2 "SP plus/minus register"
   1955 285662  (MacOSX): Memcheck needs to replace memcpy/memmove
   1956 285725  == 273475 (Add support for AVX instructions)
   1957 286261  add wrapper for linux I2C_RDWR ioctl
   1958 286270  vgpreload is not friendly to 64->32 bit execs, gives ld.so warnings
   1959 286374  Running cachegrind with --branch-sim=yes on 64-bit PowerPC program fails
   1960 286384  configure fails "checking for a supported version of gcc"
   1961 286497  == 273475 (Add support for AVX instructions)
   1962 286596  == 273475 (Add support for AVX instructions)
   1963 286917  disInstr(arm): unhandled instruction: QADD (also QSUB)
   1964 287175  ARM: scalar VFP fixed-point VCVT instructions not handled
   1965 287260  Incorrect conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
   1966 287301  vex amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x38 0x41 0xC0 0xB8 0x0 0x0 (PHMINPOSUW)
   1967 287307  == 273475 (Add support for AVX instructions)
   1968 287858  VG_(strerror): unknown error 
   1969 288298  (MacOSX) unhandled syscall shm_unlink
   1970 288995  == 273475 (Add support for AVX instructions)
   1971 289470  Loading of large Mach-O thin binaries fails.
   1972 289656  == 273475 (Add support for AVX instructions)
   1973 289699  vgdb connection in relay mode erroneously closed due to buffer overrun 
   1974 289823  ==  293754 (PCMPxSTRx not implemented for 16-bit characters)
   1975 289839  s390x: Provide support for unicode conversion instructions
   1976 289939  monitor cmd 'leak_check' with details about leaked or reachable blocks
   1977 290006  memcheck doesn't mark %xmm as initialized after "pcmpeqw %xmm %xmm"
   1978 290655  Add support for AESKEYGENASSIST instruction 
   1979 290719  valgrind-3.7.0 fails with automake-1.11.2 due to"pkglibdir" usage
   1980 290974  vgdb must align pages to VKI_SHMLBA (16KB) on ARM 
   1981 291253  ES register not initialised in valgrind simulation
   1982 291568  Fix 3DNOW-related crashes with baseline x86_64 CPU (w patch)
   1983 291865  s390x: Support the "Compare Double and Swap" family of instructions
   1984 292300  == 273475 (Add support for AVX instructions)
   1985 292430  unrecognized instruction in __intel_get_new_mem_ops_cpuid
   1986 292493  == 273475 (Add support for AVX instructions)
   1987 292626  Missing fcntl F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETOWN_EX support
   1988 292627  Missing support for some SCSI ioctls
   1989 292628  none/tests/x86/bug125959-x86.c triggers undefined behavior
   1990 292841  == 273475 (Add support for AVX instructions)
   1991 292993  implement the getcpu syscall on amd64-linux
   1992 292995  Implement the cross memory attach syscalls introduced in Linux 3.2
   1993 293088  Add some VEX sanity checks for ppc64 unhandled instructions
   1994 293751  == 290655 (Add support for AESKEYGENASSIST instruction)
   1995 293754  PCMPxSTRx not implemented for 16-bit characters
   1996 293755  == 293754 (No tests for PCMPxSTRx on 16-bit characters)
   1997 293808  CLFLUSH not supported by latest VEX for amd64
   1998 294047  valgrind does not correctly emulate prlimit64(..., RLIMIT_NOFILE, ...)
   1999 294048  MPSADBW instruction not implemented
   2000 294055  regtest none/tests/shell fails when locale is not set to C
   2001 294185  INT 0x44 (and others) not supported on x86 guest, but used by Jikes RVM
   2002 294190  --vgdb-error=xxx can be out of sync with errors shown to the user
   2003 294191  amd64: fnsave/frstor and 0x66 size prefixes on FP instructions
   2004 294260  disInstr_AMD64: disInstr miscalculated next %rip
   2005 294523  --partial-loads-ok=yes causes false negatives
   2006 294617  vex amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0xDF 0xD1 0x1 0xE8 0x6A
   2007 294736  vex amd64->IR: 0x48 0xF 0xD7 0xD6 0x48 0x83
   2008 294812  patch allowing to run (on x86 at least) helgrind/drd on tool.
   2009 295089  can not annotate source for both helgrind and drd
   2010 295221  POWER Processor decimal floating point instruction support missing
   2011 295427  building for i386 with clang on darwin11 requires "-new_linker linker"
   2012 295428  coregrind/m_main.c has incorrect x86 assembly for darwin
   2013 295590  Helgrind: Assertion 'cvi->nWaiters > 0' failed
   2014 295617  ARM - Add some missing syscalls
   2015 295799  Missing \n with get_vbits in gdbserver when line is % 80 [...]
   2016 296229  Linux user input device ioctls missing wrappers
   2017 296318  ELF Debug info improvements (more than one rx/rw mapping)
   2018 296422  Add translation chaining support
   2019 296457  vex amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0xDF 0xD1 0x1 0xE8 0x6A (dup of AES)
   2020 296792  valgrind 3.7.0: add SIOCSHWTSTAMP (0x89B0) ioctl wrapper
   2021 296983  Fix build issues on x86_64/ppc64 without 32-bit toolchains
   2022 297078  gdbserver signal handling problems [..]
   2023 297147  drd false positives on newly allocated memory
   2024 297329  disallow decoding of IBM Power DFP insns on some machines
   2025 297497  POWER Processor decimal floating point instruction support missing
   2026 297701  Another alias for strncasecmp_l in libc-2.13.so
   2027 297911  'invalid write' not reported when using APIs for custom mem allocators.
   2028 297976  s390x: revisit EX implementation
   2029 297991  Valgrind interferes with mmap()+ftell() 
   2030 297992  Support systems missing WIFCONTINUED (e.g. pre-2.6.10 Linux) 
   2031 297993  Fix compilation of valgrind with gcc -g3.
   2032 298080  POWER Processor DFP support missing, part 3
   2033 298227  == 273475 (Add support for AVX instructions)
   2034 298335  == 273475 (Add support for AVX instructions)
   2035 298354  Unhandled ARM Thumb instruction 0xEB0D 0x0585 (streq)
   2036 298394  s390x: Don't bail out on an unknown machine model.  [..]
   2037 298421  accept4() syscall (366) support is missing for ARM
   2038 298718  vex amd64->IR: 0xF 0xB1 0xCB 0x9C 0x8F 0x45
   2039 298732  valgrind installation problem in ubuntu with kernel version 3.x
   2040 298862  POWER Processor DFP instruction support missing, part 4
   2041 298864  DWARF reader mis-parses DW_FORM_ref_addr
   2042 298943  massif asserts with --pages-as-heap=yes when brk is changing [..]
   2043 299053  Support DWARF4 DW_AT_high_pc constant form
   2044 299104  == 273475 (Add support for AVX instructions)
   2045 299316  Helgrind: hg_main.c:628 (map_threads_lookup): Assertion 'thr' failed.
   2046 299629  dup3() syscall (358) support is missing for ARM
   2047 299694  POWER Processor DFP instruction support missing, part 5
   2048 299756  Ignore --free-fill for MEMPOOL_FREE and FREELIKE client requests
   2049 299803  == 273475 (Add support for AVX instructions)
   2050 299804  == 273475 (Add support for AVX instructions)
   2051 299805  == 273475 (Add support for AVX instructions)
   2052 300140  ARM - Missing (T1) SMMUL
   2053 300195  == 296318 (ELF Debug info improvements (more than one rx/rw mapping))
   2054 300389  Assertion `are_valid_hwcaps(VexArchAMD64, [..])' failed.
   2055 300414  FCOM and FCOMP unimplemented for amd64 guest
   2056 301204  infinite loop in canonicaliseSymtab with ifunc symbol
   2057 301229  == 203877 (increase to 16Mb maximum allowed alignment for memalign etc)
   2058 301265  add x86 support to Android build 
   2059 301984  configure script doesn't detect certain versions of clang
   2060 302205  Fix compiler warnings for POWER VEX code and POWER test cases
   2061 302287  Unhandled movbe instruction on Atom processors
   2062 302370  PPC: fnmadd, fnmsub, fnmadds, fnmsubs insns always negate the result
   2063 302536  Fix for the POWER Valgrind regression test: memcheck-ISA2.0.
   2064 302578  Unrecognized isntruction 0xc5 0x32 0xc2 0xca 0x09 vcmpngess
   2065 302656  == 273475 (Add support for AVX instructions)
   2066 302709  valgrind for ARM needs extra tls support for android emulator [..]
   2067 302827  add wrapper for CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY
   2068 302901  Valgrind crashes with dwz optimized debuginfo
   2069 302918  Enable testing of the vmaddfp and vnsubfp instructions in the testsuite
   2070 303116  Add support for the POWER instruction popcntb
   2071 303127  Power test suite fixes for frsqrte, vrefp, and vrsqrtefp instructions.
   2072 303250  Assertion `instrs_in->arr_used <= 10000' failed w/ OpenSSL code
   2073 303466  == 273475 (Add support for AVX instructions)
   2074 303624  segmentation fault on Android 4.1 (e.g. on Galaxy Nexus OMAP) 
   2075 303963  strstr() function produces wrong results under valgrind callgrind
   2076 304054  CALL_FN_xx macros need to enforce stack alignment
   2077 304561  tee system call not supported
   2078 715750  (MacOSX): Incorrect invalid-address errors near 0xFFFFxxxx (mozbug#)
   2079 n-i-bz  Add missing gdbserver xml files for shadow registers for ppc32
   2080 n-i-bz  Bypass gcc4.4/4.5 code gen bugs causing out of memory or asserts
   2081 n-i-bz  Fix assert in gdbserver for watchpoints watching the same address
   2082 n-i-bz  Fix false positive in sys_clone on amd64 when optional args [..]
   2083 n-i-bz  s390x: Shadow registers can now be examined using vgdb
   2084 
   2085 (3.8.0-TEST3:  9 August 2012, vex r2465, valgrind r12865)
   2086 (3.8.0:       10 August 2012, vex r2465, valgrind r12866)
   2087 
   2088 
   2089 
   2090 Release 3.7.0 (5 November 2011)
   2091 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   2092 3.7.0 is a feature release with many significant improvements and the
   2093 usual collection of bug fixes.
   2094 
   2095 This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM/Linux, PPC32/Linux,
   2096 PPC64/Linux, S390X/Linux, ARM/Android, X86/Darwin and AMD64/Darwin.
   2097 Support for recent distros and toolchain components (glibc 2.14, gcc
   2098 4.6, MacOSX 10.7) has been added.
   2099 
   2100 * ================== PLATFORM CHANGES =================
   2101 
   2102 * Support for IBM z/Architecture (s390x) running Linux.  Valgrind can
   2103   analyse 64-bit programs running on z/Architecture.  Most user space
   2104   instructions up to and including z10 are supported.  Valgrind has
   2105   been tested extensively on z9, z10, and z196 machines running SLES
   2106   10/11, RedHat 5/6m, and Fedora. The Memcheck and Massif tools are
   2107   known to work well. Callgrind, Helgrind, and DRD work reasonably
   2108   well on z9 and later models. See README.s390 for more details.
   2109 
   2110 * Preliminary support for MacOSX 10.7 and XCode 4.  Both 32- and
   2111   64-bit processes are supported.  Some complex threaded applications
   2112   (Firefox) are observed to hang when run as 32 bit applications,
   2113   whereas 64-bit versions run OK.  The cause is unknown.  Memcheck
   2114   will likely report some false errors.  In general, expect some rough
   2115   spots.  This release also supports MacOSX 10.6, but drops support
   2116   for 10.5.
   2117 
   2118 * Preliminary support for Android (on ARM).  Valgrind can now run
   2119   large applications (eg, Firefox) on (eg) a Samsung Nexus S.  See
   2120   README.android for more details, plus instructions on how to get
   2121   started.
   2122 
   2123 * Support for the IBM Power ISA 2.06 (Power7 instructions)
   2124 
   2125 * General correctness and performance improvements for ARM/Linux, and,
   2126   by extension, ARM/Android.
   2127 
   2128 * Further solidification of support for SSE 4.2 in 64-bit mode.  AVX
   2129   instruction set support is under development but is not available in
   2130   this release.
   2131 
   2132 * Support for AIX5 has been removed.
   2133 
   2134 * ==================== TOOL CHANGES ====================
   2135 
   2136 * Memcheck: some incremental changes:
   2137 
   2138   - reduction of memory use in some circumstances
   2139 
   2140   - improved handling of freed memory, which in some circumstances 
   2141     can cause detection of use-after-free that would previously have
   2142     been missed
   2143 
   2144   - fix of a longstanding bug that could cause false negatives (missed
   2145     errors) in programs doing vector saturated narrowing instructions.
   2146 
   2147 * Helgrind: performance improvements and major memory use reductions,
   2148   particularly for large, long running applications which perform many
   2149   synchronisation (lock, unlock, etc) events.  Plus many smaller
   2150   changes:
   2151 
   2152   - display of locksets for both threads involved in a race
   2153 
   2154   - general improvements in formatting/clarity of error messages
   2155 
   2156   - addition of facilities and documentation regarding annotation
   2157     of thread safe reference counted C++ classes
   2158 
   2159   - new flag --check-stack-refs=no|yes [yes], to disable race checking
   2160     on thread stacks (a performance hack)
   2161 
   2162   - new flag --free-is-write=no|yes [no], to enable detection of races
   2163     where one thread accesses heap memory but another one frees it,
   2164     without any coordinating synchronisation event
   2165 
   2166 * DRD: enabled XML output; added support for delayed thread deletion
   2167   in order to detect races that occur close to the end of a thread
   2168   (--join-list-vol); fixed a memory leak triggered by repeated client
   2169   memory allocatation and deallocation; improved Darwin support.
   2170 
   2171 * exp-ptrcheck: this tool has been renamed to exp-sgcheck
   2172 
   2173 * exp-sgcheck: this tool has been reduced in scope so as to improve
   2174   performance and remove checking that Memcheck does better.
   2175   Specifically, the ability to check for overruns for stack and global
   2176   arrays is unchanged, but the ability to check for overruns of heap
   2177   blocks has been removed.  The tool has accordingly been renamed to
   2178   exp-sgcheck ("Stack and Global Array Checking").
   2179 
   2180 * ==================== OTHER CHANGES ====================
   2181 
   2182 * GDB server: Valgrind now has an embedded GDB server.  That means it
   2183   is possible to control a Valgrind run from GDB, doing all the usual
   2184   things that GDB can do (single stepping, breakpoints, examining
   2185   data, etc).  Tool-specific functionality is also available.  For
   2186   example, it is possible to query the definedness state of variables
   2187   or memory from within GDB when running Memcheck; arbitrarily large
   2188   memory watchpoints are supported, etc.  To use the GDB server, start
   2189   Valgrind with the flag --vgdb-error=0 and follow the on-screen
   2190   instructions.
   2191 
   2192 * Improved support for unfriendly self-modifying code: a new option
   2193   --smc-check=all-non-file is available.  This adds the relevant
   2194   consistency checks only to code that originates in non-file-backed
   2195   mappings.  In effect this confines the consistency checking only to
   2196   code that is or might be JIT generated, and avoids checks on code
   2197   that must have been compiled ahead of time.  This significantly
   2198   improves performance on applications that generate code at run time.
   2199 
   2200 * It is now possible to build a working Valgrind using Clang-2.9 on
   2201   Linux.
   2202 
   2203 * new client requests VALGRIND_{DISABLE,ENABLE}_ERROR_REPORTING.
   2204   These enable and disable error reporting on a per-thread, and
   2205   nestable, basis.  This is useful for hiding errors in particularly
   2206   troublesome pieces of code.  The MPI wrapper library (libmpiwrap.c)
   2207   now uses this facility.
   2208 
   2209 * Added the --mod-funcname option to cg_diff.
   2210 
   2211 * ==================== FIXED BUGS ====================
   2212 
   2213 The following bugs have been fixed or resolved.  Note that "n-i-bz"
   2214 stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
   2215 but never got a bugzilla entry.  We encourage you to file bugs in
   2216 bugzilla (http://bugs.kde.org/enter_valgrind_bug.cgi) rather than
   2217 mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that are
   2218 not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
   2219 
   2220 To see details of a given bug, visit
   2221 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
   2222 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed below.
   2223 
   2224  79311  malloc silly arg warning does not give stack trace
   2225 210935  port valgrind.h (not valgrind) to win32 to support client requests
   2226 214223  valgrind SIGSEGV on startup gcc 4.4.1 ppc32 (G4) Ubuntu 9.10
   2227 243404  Port to zSeries
   2228 243935  Helgrind: incorrect handling of ANNOTATE_HAPPENS_BEFORE()/AFTER()
   2229 247223  non-x86: Suppress warning: 'regparm' attribute directive ignored
   2230 250101  huge "free" memory usage due to m_mallocfree.c fragmentation
   2231 253206  Some fixes for the faultstatus testcase
   2232 255223  capget testcase fails when running as root
   2233 256703  xlc_dbl_u32.c testcase broken
   2234 256726  Helgrind tests have broken inline asm 
   2235 259977  == 214223 (Valgrind segfaults doing __builtin_longjmp)
   2236 264800  testcase compile failure on zseries
   2237 265762  make public VEX headers compilable by G++ 3.x
   2238 265771  assertion in jumps.c (r11523) fails with glibc-2.3
   2239 266753  configure script does not give the user the option to not use QtCore
   2240 266931  gen_insn_test.pl is broken
   2241 266961  ld-linux.so.2 i?86-linux strlen issues
   2242 266990  setns instruction causes false positive
   2243 267020  Make directory for temporary files configurable at run-time.
   2244 267342  == 267997 (segmentation fault on Mac OS 10.6)
   2245 267383  Assertion 'vgPlain_strlen(dir) + vgPlain_strlen(file) + 1 < 256' failed
   2246 267413  Assertion 'DRD_(g_threadinfo)[tid].synchr_nesting >= 1' failed.
   2247 267488  regtest: darwin support for 64-bit build
   2248 267552  SIGSEGV (misaligned_stack_error) with DRD, but not with other tools
   2249 267630  Add support for IBM Power ISA 2.06 -- stage 1
   2250 267769  == 267997 (Darwin: memcheck triggers segmentation fault)
   2251 267819  Add client request for informing the core about reallocation
   2252 267925  laog data structure quadratic for a single sequence of lock
   2253 267968  drd: (vgDrd_thread_set_joinable): Assertion '0 <= (int)tid ..' failed
   2254 267997  MacOSX: 64-bit V segfaults on launch when built with Xcode 4.0.1
   2255 268513  missed optimizations in fold_Expr
   2256 268619  s390x: fpr - gpr transfer facility 
   2257 268620  s390x: reconsider "long displacement" requirement 
   2258 268621  s390x: improve IR generation for XC
   2259 268715  s390x: FLOGR is not universally available
   2260 268792  == 267997 (valgrind seg faults on startup when compiled with Xcode 4)
   2261 268930  s390x: MHY is not universally available
   2262 269078  arm->IR: unhandled instruction SUB (SP minus immediate/register) 
   2263 269079  Support ptrace system call on ARM
   2264 269144  missing "Bad option" error message
   2265 269209  conditional load and store facility (z196)
   2266 269354  Shift by zero on x86 can incorrectly clobber CC_NDEP
   2267 269641  == 267997 (valgrind segfaults immediately (segmentation fault))
   2268 269736  s390x: minor code generation tweaks
   2269 269778  == 272986 (valgrind.h: swap roles of VALGRIND_DO_CLIENT_REQUEST() ..)
   2270 269863  s390x: remove unused function parameters
   2271 269864  s390x: tweak s390_emit_load_cc 
   2272 269884  == 250101 (overhead for huge blocks exhausts space too soon)
   2273 270082  s390x: Make sure to point the PSW address to the next address on SIGILL
   2274 270115  s390x: rewrite some testcases
   2275 270309  == 267997 (valgrind crash on startup)
   2276 270320  add support for Linux FIOQSIZE ioctl() call
   2277 270326  segfault while trying to sanitize the environment passed to execle
   2278 270794  IBM POWER7 support patch causes regression in none/tests
   2279 270851  IBM POWER7 fcfidus instruction causes memcheck to fail
   2280 270856  IBM POWER7 xsnmaddadp instruction causes memcheck to fail on 32bit app 
   2281 270925  hyper-optimized strspn() in /lib64/libc-2.13.so needs fix
   2282 270959  s390x: invalid use of R0 as base register
   2283 271042  VSX configure check fails when it should not 
   2284 271043  Valgrind build fails with assembler error on ppc64 with binutils 2.21 
   2285 271259  s390x: fix code confusion 
   2286 271337  == 267997 (Valgrind segfaults on MacOS X)
   2287 271385  s390x: Implement Ist_MBE 
   2288 271501  s390x: misc cleanups 
   2289 271504  s390x: promote likely and unlikely 
   2290 271579  ppc: using wrong enum type 
   2291 271615  unhandled instruction "popcnt" (arch=amd10h) 
   2292 271730  Fix bug when checking ioctls: duplicate check 
   2293 271776  s390x: provide STFLE instruction support 
   2294 271779  s390x: provide clock instructions like STCK 
   2295 271799  Darwin: ioctls without an arg report a memory error 
   2296 271820  arm: fix type confusion 
   2297 271917  pthread_cond_timedwait failure leads to not-locked false positive 
   2298 272067  s390x: fix DISP20 macro 
   2299 272615  A typo in debug output in mc_leakcheck.c
   2300 272661  callgrind_annotate chokes when run from paths containing regex chars
   2301 272893  amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x38 0x2B 0xC1 0x66 0xF 0x7F == (closed as dup)
   2302 272955  Unhandled syscall error for pwrite64 on ppc64 arch 
   2303 272967  make documentation build-system more robust 
   2304 272986  Fix gcc-4.6 warnings with valgrind.h
   2305 273318  amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0x61 0xC1 0x38 (missing PCMPxSTRx case)
   2306 273318  unhandled PCMPxSTRx case: vex amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0x61 0xC1 0x38 
   2307 273431  valgrind segfaults in evalCfiExpr (debuginfo.c:2039)
   2308 273465  Callgrind: jumps.c:164 (new_jcc): Assertion '(0 <= jmp) && ...'
   2309 273536  Build error: multiple definition of `vgDrd_pthread_cond_initializer'
   2310 273640  ppc64-linux: unhandled syscalls setresuid(164) and setresgid(169)
   2311 273729  == 283000 (Illegal opcode for SSE2 "roundsd" instruction)
   2312 273778  exp-ptrcheck: unhandled sysno == 259
   2313 274089  exp-ptrcheck: unhandled sysno == 208
   2314 274378  s390x: Various dispatcher tweaks
   2315 274447  WARNING: unhandled syscall: 340
   2316 274776  amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x38 0x2B 0xC5 0x66
   2317 274784  == 267997 (valgrind ls -l results in Segmentation Fault)
   2318 274926  valgrind does not build against linux-3
   2319 275148  configure FAIL with glibc-2.14
   2320 275151  Fedora 15 / glibc-2.14 'make regtest' FAIL
   2321 275168  Make Valgrind work for MacOSX 10.7 Lion
   2322 275212  == 275284 (lots of false positives from __memcpy_ssse3_back et al)
   2323 275278  valgrind does not build on Linux kernel 3.0.* due to silly
   2324 275284  Valgrind memcpy/memmove redirection stopped working in glibc 2.14/x86_64
   2325 275308  Fix implementation for ppc64 fres instruc
   2326 275339  s390x: fix testcase compile warnings
   2327 275517  s390x: Provide support for CKSM instruction
   2328 275710  s390x: get rid of redundant address mode calculation
   2329 275815  == 247894 (Valgrind doesn't know about Linux readahead(2) syscall)
   2330 275852  == 250101 (valgrind uses all swap space and is killed)
   2331 276784  Add support for IBM Power ISA 2.06 -- stage 3
   2332 276987  gdbsrv: fix tests following recent commits
   2333 277045  Valgrind crashes with  unhandled DW_OP_ opcode 0x2a
   2334 277199  The test_isa_2_06_part1.c in none/tests/ppc64 should be a symlink
   2335 277471  Unhandled syscall: 340
   2336 277610  valgrind crashes in VG_(lseek)(core_fd, phdrs[idx].p_offset, ...)
   2337 277653  ARM: support Thumb2 PLD instruction
   2338 277663  ARM: NEON float VMUL by scalar incorrect
   2339 277689  ARM: tests for VSTn with register post-index are broken
   2340 277694  ARM: BLX LR instruction broken in ARM mode
   2341 277780  ARM: VMOV.F32 (immediate) instruction is broken
   2342 278057  fuse filesystem syscall deadlocks
   2343 278078  Unimplemented syscall 280 on ppc32
   2344 278349  F_GETPIPE_SZ and  F_SETPIPE_SZ Linux fcntl commands
   2345 278454  VALGRIND_STACK_DEREGISTER has wrong output type
   2346 278502  == 275284 (Valgrind confuses memcpy() and memmove())
   2347 278892  gdbsrv: factorize gdb version handling, fix doc and typos
   2348 279027  Support for MVCL and CLCL instruction
   2349 279027  s390x: Provide support for CLCL and MVCL instructions
   2350 279062  Remove a redundant check in the insn selector for ppc.
   2351 279071  JDK creates PTEST with redundant REX.W prefix
   2352 279212  gdbsrv: add monitor cmd v.info scheduler.
   2353 279378  exp-ptrcheck: the 'impossible' happened on mkfifo call
   2354 279698  memcheck discards valid-bits for packuswb
   2355 279795  memcheck reports uninitialised values for mincore on amd64
   2356 279994  Add support for IBM Power ISA 2.06 -- stage 3
   2357 280083  mempolicy syscall check errors
   2358 280290  vex amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x38 0x28 0xC1 0x66 0xF 0x6F
   2359 280710  s390x: config files for nightly builds
   2360 280757  /tmp dir still used by valgrind even if TMPDIR is specified
   2361 280965  Valgrind breaks fcntl locks when program does mmap
   2362 281138  WARNING: unhandled syscall: 340
   2363 281241  == 275168 (valgrind useless on Macos 10.7.1 Lion)
   2364 281304  == 275168 (Darwin: dyld "cannot load inserted library")
   2365 281305  == 275168 (unhandled syscall: unix:357 on Darwin 11.1)
   2366 281468  s390x: handle do_clone and gcc clones in call traces
   2367 281488  ARM: VFP register corruption
   2368 281828  == 275284 (false memmove warning: "Source and destination overlap")
   2369 281883  s390x: Fix system call wrapper for "clone".
   2370 282105  generalise 'reclaimSuperBlock' to also reclaim splittable superblock
   2371 282112  Unhandled instruction bytes: 0xDE 0xD9 0x9B 0xDF (fcompp)
   2372 282238  SLES10: make check fails
   2373 282979  strcasestr needs replacement with recent(>=2.12) glibc
   2374 283000  vex amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0xA 0xC0 0x9 0xF3 0xF
   2375 283243  Regression in ppc64 memcheck tests
   2376 283325  == 267997 (Darwin: V segfaults on startup when built with Xcode 4.0)
   2377 283427  re-connect epoll_pwait syscall on ARM linux
   2378 283600  gdbsrv: android: port vgdb.c
   2379 283709  none/tests/faultstatus needs to account for page size
   2380 284305  filter_gdb needs enhancement to work on ppc64
   2381 284384  clang 3.1 -Wunused-value warnings in valgrind.h, memcheck.h
   2382 284472  Thumb2 ROR.W encoding T2 not implemented
   2383 284621  XML-escape process command line in XML output
   2384 n-i-bz  cachegrind/callgrind: handle CPUID information for Core iX Intel CPUs
   2385         that have non-power-of-2 sizes (also AMDs)
   2386 n-i-bz  don't be spooked by libraries mashed by elfhack
   2387 n-i-bz  don't be spooked by libxul.so linked with gold
   2388 n-i-bz  improved checking for VALGRIND_CHECK_MEM_IS_DEFINED
   2389 
   2390 (3.7.0-TEST1: 27  October 2011, vex r2228, valgrind r12245)
   2391 (3.7.0.RC1:    1 November 2011, vex r2231, valgrind r12257)
   2392 (3.7.0:        5 November 2011, vex r2231, valgrind r12258)
   2393 
   2394 
   2395 
   2396 Release 3.6.1 (16 February 2011)
   2397 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   2398 3.6.1 is a bug fix release.  It adds support for some SSE4
   2399 instructions that were omitted in 3.6.0 due to lack of time.  Initial
   2400 support for glibc-2.13 has been added.  A number of bugs causing
   2401 crashing or assertion failures have been fixed.
   2402 
   2403 The following bugs have been fixed or resolved.  Note that "n-i-bz"
   2404 stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
   2405 but never got a bugzilla entry.  We encourage you to file bugs in
   2406 bugzilla (http://bugs.kde.org/enter_valgrind_bug.cgi) rather than
   2407 mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that are
   2408 not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
   2409 
   2410 To see details of a given bug, visit
   2411 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
   2412 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed below.
   2413 
   2414 188572  Valgrind on Mac should suppress setenv() mem leak
   2415 194402  vex amd64->IR: 0x48 0xF 0xAE 0x4 (proper FX{SAVE,RSTOR} support)
   2416 210481  vex amd64->IR: Assertion `sz == 2 || sz == 4' failed (REX.W POPQ)
   2417 246152  callgrind internal error after pthread_cancel on 32 Bit Linux
   2418 250038  ppc64: Altivec LVSR and LVSL instructions fail their regtest
   2419 254420  memory pool tracking broken 
   2420 254957  Test code failing to compile due to changes in memcheck.h
   2421 255009  helgrind/drd: crash on chmod with invalid parameter
   2422 255130  readdwarf3.c parse_type_DIE confused by GNAT Ada types
   2423 255355  helgrind/drd: crash on threaded programs doing fork
   2424 255358  == 255355
   2425 255418  (SSE4.x) rint call compiled with ICC
   2426 255822  --gen-suppressions can create invalid files: "too many callers [...]"
   2427 255888  closing valgrindoutput tag outputted to log-stream on error
   2428 255963  (SSE4.x) vex amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0x9 0xDB 0x0 (ROUNDPD)
   2429 255966  Slowness when using mempool annotations
   2430 256387  vex x86->IR: 0xD4 0xA 0x2 0x7 (AAD and AAM)
   2431 256600  super-optimized strcasecmp() false positive
   2432 256669  vex amd64->IR: Unhandled LOOPNEL insn on amd64
   2433 256968  (SSE4.x) vex amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x38 0x10 0xD3 0x66 (BLENDVPx)
   2434 257011  (SSE4.x) vex amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0xE 0xFD 0xA0 (PBLENDW)
   2435 257063  (SSE4.x) vex amd64->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0x8 0xC0 0x0 (ROUNDPS)
   2436 257276  Missing case in memcheck --track-origins=yes
   2437 258870  (SSE4.x) Add support for EXTRACTPS SSE 4.1 instruction
   2438 261966  (SSE4.x) support for CRC32B and CRC32Q is lacking (also CRC32{W,L})
   2439 262985  VEX regression in valgrind 3.6.0 in handling PowerPC VMX
   2440 262995  (SSE4.x) crash when trying to valgrind gcc-snapshot (PCMPxSTRx $0)
   2441 263099  callgrind_annotate counts Ir improperly [...]
   2442 263877  undefined coprocessor instruction on ARMv7
   2443 265964  configure FAIL with glibc-2.13
   2444 n-i-bz  Fix compile error w/ icc-12.x in guest_arm_toIR.c
   2445 n-i-bz  Docs: fix bogus descriptions for VALGRIND_CREATE_BLOCK et al
   2446 n-i-bz  Massif: don't assert on shmat() with --pages-as-heap=yes
   2447 n-i-bz  Bug fixes and major speedups for the exp-DHAT space profiler
   2448 n-i-bz  DRD: disable --free-is-write due to implementation difficulties
   2449 
   2450 (3.6.1: 16 February 2011, vex r2103, valgrind r11561).
   2451 
   2452 
   2453 
   2454 Release 3.6.0 (21 October 2010)
   2455 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   2456 3.6.0 is a feature release with many significant improvements and the
   2457 usual collection of bug fixes.
   2458 
   2459 This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM/Linux, PPC32/Linux,
   2460 PPC64/Linux, X86/Darwin and AMD64/Darwin.  Support for recent distros
   2461 and toolchain components (glibc 2.12, gcc 4.5, OSX 10.6) has been added.
   2462 
   2463                     -------------------------
   2464 
   2465 Here are some highlights.  Details are shown further down:
   2466 
   2467 * Support for ARM/Linux.
   2468 
   2469 * Support for recent Linux distros: Ubuntu 10.10 and Fedora 14.
   2470 
   2471 * Support for Mac OS X 10.6, both 32- and 64-bit executables.
   2472 
   2473 * Support for the SSE4.2 instruction set.
   2474 
   2475 * Enhancements to the Callgrind profiler, including the ability to
   2476   handle CPUs with three levels of cache.
   2477 
   2478 * A new experimental heap profiler, DHAT.
   2479 
   2480 * A huge number of bug fixes and small enhancements.
   2481 
   2482                     -------------------------
   2483 
   2484 Here are details of the above changes, together with descriptions of
   2485 many other changes, and a list of fixed bugs.
   2486 
   2487 * ================== PLATFORM CHANGES =================
   2488 
   2489 * Support for ARM/Linux.  Valgrind now runs on ARMv7 capable CPUs
   2490   running Linux.  It is known to work on Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 10.10,
   2491   and Maemo 5, so you can run Valgrind on your Nokia N900 if you want.
   2492 
   2493   This requires a CPU capable of running the ARMv7-A instruction set
   2494   (Cortex A5, A8 and A9).  Valgrind provides fairly complete coverage
   2495   of the user space instruction set, including ARM and Thumb integer
   2496   code, VFPv3, NEON and V6 media instructions.  The Memcheck,
   2497   Cachegrind and Massif tools work properly; other tools work to
   2498   varying degrees.
   2499 
   2500 * Support for recent Linux distros (Ubuntu 10.10 and Fedora 14), along
   2501   with support for recent releases of the underlying toolchain
   2502   components, notably gcc-4.5 and glibc-2.12.
   2503 
   2504 * Support for Mac OS X 10.6, both 32- and 64-bit executables.  64-bit
   2505   support also works much better on OS X 10.5, and is as solid as
   2506   32-bit support now.
   2507 
   2508 * Support for the SSE4.2 instruction set.  SSE4.2 is supported in
   2509   64-bit mode.  In 32-bit mode, support is only available up to and
   2510   including SSSE3.  Some exceptions: SSE4.2 AES instructions are not
   2511   supported in 64-bit mode, and 32-bit mode does in fact support the
   2512   bare minimum SSE4 instructions to needed to run programs on Mac OS X
   2513   10.6 on 32-bit targets.
   2514 
   2515 * Support for IBM POWER6 cpus has been improved.  The Power ISA up to
   2516   and including version 2.05 is supported.
   2517 
   2518 * ==================== TOOL CHANGES ====================
   2519 
   2520 * Cachegrind has a new processing script, cg_diff, which finds the
   2521   difference between two profiles.  It's very useful for evaluating
   2522   the performance effects of a change in a program.
   2523   
   2524   Related to this change, the meaning of cg_annotate's (rarely-used)
   2525   --threshold option has changed; this is unlikely to affect many
   2526   people, if you do use it please see the user manual for details.
   2527 
   2528 * Callgrind now can do branch prediction simulation, similar to
   2529   Cachegrind.  In addition, it optionally can count the number of
   2530   executed global bus events.  Both can be used for a better
   2531   approximation of a "Cycle Estimation" as derived event (you need to
   2532   update the event formula in KCachegrind yourself).
   2533 
   2534 * Cachegrind and Callgrind now refer to the LL (last-level) cache
   2535   rather than the L2 cache.  This is to accommodate machines with
   2536   three levels of caches -- if Cachegrind/Callgrind auto-detects the
   2537   cache configuration of such a machine it will run the simulation as
   2538   if the L2 cache isn't present.  This means the results are less
   2539   likely to match the true result for the machine, but
   2540   Cachegrind/Callgrind's results are already only approximate, and
   2541   should not be considered authoritative.  The results are still
   2542   useful for giving a general idea about a program's locality.
   2543 
   2544 * Massif has a new option, --pages-as-heap, which is disabled by
   2545   default.  When enabled, instead of tracking allocations at the level
   2546   of heap blocks (as allocated with malloc/new/new[]), it instead
   2547   tracks memory allocations at the level of memory pages (as mapped by
   2548   mmap, brk, etc).  Each mapped page is treated as its own block.
   2549   Interpreting the page-level output is harder than the heap-level
   2550   output, but this option is useful if you want to account for every
   2551   byte of memory used by a program.
   2552 
   2553 * DRD has two new command-line options: --free-is-write and
   2554   --trace-alloc.  The former allows to detect reading from already freed
   2555   memory, and the latter allows tracing of all memory allocations and
   2556   deallocations.
   2557 
   2558 * DRD has several new annotations.  Custom barrier implementations can
   2559   now be annotated, as well as benign races on static variables.
   2560 
   2561 * DRD's happens before / happens after annotations have been made more
   2562   powerful, so that they can now also be used to annotate e.g. a smart
   2563   pointer implementation.
   2564 
   2565 * Helgrind's annotation set has also been drastically improved, so as
   2566   to provide to users a general set of annotations to describe locks,
   2567   semaphores, barriers and condition variables.  Annotations to
   2568   describe thread-safe reference counted heap objects have also been
   2569   added.
   2570 
   2571 * Memcheck has a new command-line option, --show-possibly-lost, which
   2572   is enabled by default.  When disabled, the leak detector will not
   2573   show possibly-lost blocks.
   2574 
   2575 * A new experimental heap profiler, DHAT (Dynamic Heap Analysis Tool),
   2576   has been added.  DHAT keeps track of allocated heap blocks, and also
   2577   inspects every memory reference to see which block (if any) is being
   2578   accessed.  This gives a lot of insight into block lifetimes,
   2579   utilisation, turnover, liveness, and the location of hot and cold
   2580   fields.  You can use DHAT to do hot-field profiling.
   2581 
   2582 * ==================== OTHER CHANGES ====================
   2583 
   2584 * Improved support for unfriendly self-modifying code: the extra
   2585   overhead incurred by --smc-check=all has been reduced by
   2586   approximately a factor of 5 as compared with 3.5.0.
   2587 
   2588 * Ability to show directory names for source files in error messages.
   2589   This is combined with a flexible mechanism for specifying which
   2590   parts of the paths should be shown.  This is enabled by the new flag
   2591   --fullpath-after.
   2592 
   2593 * A new flag, --require-text-symbol, which will stop the run if a
   2594   specified symbol is not found it a given shared object when it is
   2595   loaded into the process.  This makes advanced working with function
   2596   intercepting and wrapping safer and more reliable.
   2597 
   2598 * Improved support for the Valkyrie GUI, version 2.0.0.  GUI output
   2599   and control of Valgrind is now available for the tools Memcheck and
   2600   Helgrind.  XML output from Valgrind is available for Memcheck,
   2601   Helgrind and exp-Ptrcheck.
   2602 
   2603 * More reliable stack unwinding on amd64-linux, particularly in the
   2604   presence of function wrappers, and with gcc-4.5 compiled code.
   2605 
   2606 * Modest scalability (performance improvements) for massive
   2607   long-running applications, particularly for those with huge amounts
   2608   of code.
   2609 
   2610 * Support for analyzing programs running under Wine with has been
   2611   improved.  The header files <valgrind/valgrind.h>,
   2612   <valgrind/memcheck.h> and <valgrind/drd.h> can now be used in
   2613   Windows-programs compiled with MinGW or one of the Microsoft Visual
   2614   Studio compilers.
   2615 
   2616 * A rare but serious error in the 64-bit x86 CPU simulation was fixed.
   2617   The 32-bit simulator was not affected.  This did not occur often,
   2618   but when it did would usually crash the program under test.
   2619   Bug 245925.
   2620 
   2621 * A large number of bugs were fixed.  These are shown below.
   2622 
   2623 * A number of bugs were investigated, and were candidates for fixing,
   2624   but are not fixed in 3.6.0, due to lack of developer time.  They may
   2625   get fixed in later releases.  They are:
   2626 
   2627   194402  vex amd64->IR: 0x48 0xF 0xAE 0x4 0x24 0x49  (FXSAVE64)
   2628   212419  false positive "lock order violated" (A+B vs A) 
   2629   213685  Undefined value propagates past dependency breaking instruction
   2630   216837  Incorrect instrumentation of NSOperationQueue on Darwin 
   2631   237920  valgrind segfault on fork failure 
   2632   242137  support for code compiled by LLVM-2.8
   2633   242423  Another unknown Intel cache config value 
   2634   243232  Inconsistent Lock Orderings report with trylock 
   2635   243483  ppc: callgrind triggers VEX assertion failure 
   2636   243935  Helgrind: implementation of ANNOTATE_HAPPENS_BEFORE() is wrong
   2637   244677  Helgrind crash hg_main.c:616 (map_threads_lookup): Assertion
   2638           'thr' failed. 
   2639   246152  callgrind internal error after pthread_cancel on 32 Bit Linux 
   2640   249435  Analyzing wine programs with callgrind triggers a crash 
   2641   250038  ppc64: Altivec lvsr and lvsl instructions fail their regtest
   2642   250065  Handling large allocations 
   2643   250101  huge "free" memory usage due to m_mallocfree.c
   2644           "superblocks fragmentation"
   2645   251569  vex amd64->IR: 0xF 0x1 0xF9 0x8B 0x4C 0x24 (RDTSCP)
   2646   252091  Callgrind on ARM does not detect function returns correctly
   2647   252600  [PATCH] Allow lhs to be a pointer for shl/shr
   2648   254420  memory pool tracking broken
   2649   n-i-bz  support for adding symbols for JIT generated code
   2650 
   2651 
   2652 The following bugs have been fixed or resolved.  Note that "n-i-bz"
   2653 stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
   2654 but never got a bugzilla entry.  We encourage you to file bugs in
   2655 bugzilla (http://bugs.kde.org/enter_valgrind_bug.cgi) rather than
   2656 mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that are
   2657 not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
   2658 
   2659 To see details of a given bug, visit
   2660 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
   2661 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed below.
   2662 
   2663 135264  dcbzl instruction missing
   2664 142688  == 250799
   2665 153699  Valgrind should report unaligned reads with movdqa
   2666 180217  == 212335
   2667 190429  Valgrind reports lost of errors in ld.so
   2668         with x86_64 2.9.90 glibc 
   2669 197266  valgrind appears to choke on the xmms instruction
   2670         "roundsd" on x86_64 
   2671 197988  Crash when demangling very large symbol names
   2672 202315  unhandled syscall: 332 (inotify_init1)
   2673 203256  Add page-level profiling to Massif
   2674 205093  dsymutil=yes needs quotes, locking (partial fix)
   2675 205241  Snow Leopard 10.6 support (partial fix)
   2676 206600  Leak checker fails to upgrade indirect blocks when their
   2677         parent becomes reachable 
   2678 210935  port valgrind.h (not valgrind) to win32 so apps run under
   2679         wine can make client requests
   2680 211410  vex amd64->IR: 0x15 0xFF 0xFF 0x0 0x0 0x89
   2681         within Linux ip-stack checksum functions 
   2682 212335  unhandled instruction bytes: 0xF3 0xF 0xBD 0xC0
   2683         (lzcnt %eax,%eax) 
   2684 213685  Undefined value propagates past dependency breaking instruction
   2685         (partial fix)
   2686 215914  Valgrind inserts bogus empty environment variable 
   2687 217863  == 197988
   2688 219538  adjtimex syscall wrapper wrong in readonly adjtime mode 
   2689 222545  shmat fails under valgind on some arm targets 
   2690 222560  ARM NEON support 
   2691 230407  == 202315
   2692 231076  == 202315
   2693 232509  Docs build fails with formatting inside <title></title> elements 
   2694 232793  == 202315
   2695 235642  [PATCH] syswrap-linux.c: support evdev EVIOCG* ioctls 
   2696 236546  vex x86->IR: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0xA
   2697 237202  vex amd64->IR: 0xF3 0xF 0xB8 0xC0 0x49 0x3B 
   2698 237371  better support for VALGRIND_MALLOCLIKE_BLOCK 
   2699 237485  symlink (syscall 57) is not supported on Mac OS 
   2700 237723  sysno == 101 exp-ptrcheck: the 'impossible' happened:
   2701         unhandled syscall 
   2702 238208  is_just_below_ESP doesn't take into account red-zone 
   2703 238345  valgrind passes wrong $0 when executing a shell script 
   2704 238679  mq_timedreceive syscall doesn't flag the reception buffer
   2705         as "defined"
   2706 238696  fcntl command F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC not supported 
   2707 238713  unhandled instruction bytes: 0x66 0xF 0x29 0xC6 
   2708 238713  unhandled instruction bytes: 0x66 0xF 0x29 0xC6 
   2709 238745  3.5.0 Make fails on PPC Altivec opcodes, though configure
   2710         says "Altivec off"
   2711 239992  vex amd64->IR: 0x48 0xF 0xC4 0xC1 0x0 0x48 
   2712 240488  == 197988
   2713 240639  == 212335
   2714 241377  == 236546
   2715 241903  == 202315
   2716 241920  == 212335
   2717 242606  unhandled syscall: setegid (in Ptrcheck)
   2718 242814  Helgrind "Impossible has happened" during
   2719         QApplication::initInstance(); 
   2720 243064  Valgrind attempting to read debug information from iso 
   2721 243270  Make stack unwinding in Valgrind wrappers more reliable
   2722 243884  exp-ptrcheck: the 'impossible happened: unhandled syscall 
   2723         sysno = 277 (mq_open)
   2724 244009  exp-ptrcheck unknown syscalls in analyzing lighttpd
   2725 244493  ARM VFP d16-d31 registers support 
   2726 244670  add support for audit_session_self syscall on Mac OS 10.6
   2727 244921  The xml report of helgrind tool is not well format
   2728 244923  In the xml report file, the <preamble> not escape the 
   2729         xml char, eg '<','&','>'
   2730 245535  print full path names in plain text reports 
   2731 245925  x86-64 red zone handling problem 
   2732 246258  Valgrind not catching integer underruns + new [] s
   2733 246311  reg/reg cmpxchg doesn't work on amd64
   2734 246549  unhandled syscall unix:277 while testing 32-bit Darwin app 
   2735 246888  Improve Makefile.vex.am 
   2736 247510  [OS X 10.6] Memcheck reports unaddressable bytes passed 
   2737         to [f]chmod_extended
   2738 247526  IBM POWER6 (ISA 2.05) support is incomplete
   2739 247561  Some leak testcases fails due to reachable addresses in
   2740         caller save regs
   2741 247875  sizeofIRType to handle Ity_I128 
   2742 247894  [PATCH] unhandled syscall sys_readahead 
   2743 247980  Doesn't honor CFLAGS passed to configure 
   2744 248373  darwin10.supp is empty in the trunk 
   2745 248822  Linux FIBMAP ioctl has int parameter instead of long
   2746 248893  [PATCH] make readdwarf.c big endianess safe to enable
   2747         unwinding on big endian systems
   2748 249224  Syscall 336 not supported (SYS_proc_info) 
   2749 249359  == 245535
   2750 249775  Incorrect scheme for detecting NEON capabilities of host CPU
   2751 249943  jni JVM init fails when using valgrind
   2752 249991  Valgrind incorrectly declares AESKEYGENASSIST support
   2753         since VEX r2011
   2754 249996  linux/arm: unhandled syscall: 181 (__NR_pwrite64)
   2755 250799  frexp$fenv_access_off function generates SIGILL 
   2756 250998  vex x86->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0x66 0x66 0x66 0x2E 
   2757 251251  support pclmulqdq insn 
   2758 251362  valgrind: ARM: attach to debugger either fails or provokes
   2759         kernel oops 
   2760 251674  Unhandled syscall 294
   2761 251818  == 254550
   2762 
   2763 254257  Add support for debugfiles found by build-id
   2764 254550  [PATCH] Implement DW_ATE_UTF (DWARF4)
   2765 254646  Wrapped functions cause stack misalignment on OS X
   2766         (and possibly Linux)
   2767 254556  ARM: valgrinding anything fails with SIGSEGV for 0xFFFF0FA0
   2768 
   2769 (3.6.0: 21 October 2010, vex r2068, valgrind r11471).
   2770 
   2771 
   2772 
   2773 Release 3.5.0 (19 August 2009)
   2774 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   2775 3.5.0 is a feature release with many significant improvements and the
   2776 usual collection of bug fixes.  The main improvement is that Valgrind
   2777 now works on Mac OS X.
   2778 
   2779 This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, PPC32/Linux, PPC64/Linux
   2780 and X86/Darwin.  Support for recent distros and toolchain components
   2781 (glibc 2.10, gcc 4.5) has been added.
   2782 
   2783                     -------------------------
   2784 
   2785 Here is a short summary of the changes.  Details are shown further
   2786 down:
   2787 
   2788 * Support for Mac OS X (10.5.x).
   2789 
   2790 * Improvements and simplifications to Memcheck's leak checker.
   2791 
   2792 * Clarification and simplifications in various aspects of Valgrind's
   2793   text output.
   2794 
   2795 * XML output for Helgrind and Ptrcheck.
   2796 
   2797 * Performance and stability improvements for Helgrind and DRD.
   2798 
   2799 * Genuinely atomic support for x86/amd64/ppc atomic instructions.
   2800 
   2801 * A new experimental tool, BBV, useful for computer architecture
   2802   research.
   2803 
   2804 * Improved Wine support, including ability to read Windows PDB
   2805   debuginfo.
   2806 
   2807                     -------------------------
   2808 
   2809 Here are details of the above changes, followed by descriptions of
   2810 many other minor changes, and a list of fixed bugs.
   2811 
   2812 
   2813 * Valgrind now runs on Mac OS X.  (Note that Mac OS X is sometimes
   2814   called "Darwin" because that is the name of the OS core, which is the
   2815   level that Valgrind works at.)
   2816 
   2817   Supported systems:
   2818 
   2819   - It requires OS 10.5.x (Leopard).  Porting to 10.4.x is not planned
   2820     because it would require work and 10.4 is only becoming less common.
   2821 
   2822   - 32-bit programs on x86 and AMD64 (a.k.a x86-64) machines are supported
   2823     fairly well.  For 10.5.x, 32-bit programs are the default even on
   2824     64-bit machines, so it handles most current programs.
   2825     
   2826   - 64-bit programs on x86 and AMD64 (a.k.a x86-64) machines are not
   2827     officially supported, but simple programs at least will probably work.
   2828     However, start-up is slow.
   2829 
   2830   - PowerPC machines are not supported.
   2831 
   2832   Things that don't work:
   2833 
   2834   - The Ptrcheck tool.
   2835 
   2836   - Objective-C garbage collection.
   2837 
   2838   - --db-attach=yes.
   2839 
   2840   - If you have Rogue Amoeba's "Instant Hijack" program installed,
   2841     Valgrind will fail with a SIGTRAP at start-up.  See
   2842     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193917 for details and a
   2843     simple work-around.
   2844 
   2845   Usage notes:
   2846 
   2847   - You will likely find --dsymutil=yes a useful option, as error
   2848     messages may be imprecise without it.
   2849 
   2850   - Mac OS X support is new and therefore will be less robust than the
   2851     Linux support.  Please report any bugs you find.
   2852 
   2853   - Threaded programs may run more slowly than on Linux.
   2854 
   2855   Many thanks to Greg Parker for developing this port over several years.
   2856 
   2857 
   2858 * Memcheck's leak checker has been improved.  
   2859 
   2860   - The results for --leak-check=summary now match the summary results
   2861     for --leak-check=full.  Previously they could differ because
   2862     --leak-check=summary counted "indirectly lost" blocks and
   2863     "suppressed" blocks as "definitely lost".
   2864 
   2865   - Blocks that are only reachable via at least one interior-pointer,
   2866     but are directly pointed to by a start-pointer, were previously
   2867     marked as "still reachable".  They are now correctly marked as
   2868     "possibly lost".
   2869 
   2870   - The default value for the --leak-resolution option has been
   2871     changed from "low" to "high".  In general, this means that more
   2872     leak reports will be produced, but each leak report will describe
   2873     fewer leaked blocks.
   2874 
   2875   - With --leak-check=full, "definitely lost" and "possibly lost"
   2876     leaks are now considered as proper errors, ie. they are counted
   2877     for the "ERROR SUMMARY" and affect the behaviour of
   2878     --error-exitcode.  These leaks are not counted as errors if
   2879     --leak-check=summary is specified, however.
   2880 
   2881   - Documentation for the leak checker has been improved.
   2882 
   2883 
   2884 * Various aspects of Valgrind's text output have changed.
   2885 
   2886   - Valgrind's start-up message has changed.  It is shorter but also
   2887     includes the command being run, which makes it easier to use
   2888     --trace-children=yes.  An example:
   2889 
   2890   - Valgrind's shut-down messages have also changed.  This is most
   2891     noticeable with Memcheck, where the leak summary now occurs before
   2892     the error summary.  This change was necessary to allow leaks to be
   2893     counted as proper errors (see the description of the leak checker
   2894     changes above for more details).  This was also necessary to fix a
   2895     longstanding bug in which uses of suppressions against leaks were
   2896     not "counted", leading to difficulties in maintaining suppression
   2897     files (see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186790).
   2898 
   2899   - Behavior of -v has changed.  In previous versions, -v printed out
   2900     a mixture of marginally-user-useful information, and tool/core
   2901     statistics.  The statistics printing has now been moved to its own
   2902     flag, --stats=yes.  This means -v is less verbose and more likely
   2903     to convey useful end-user information.
   2904 
   2905   - The format of some (non-XML) stack trace entries has changed a
   2906     little.  Previously there were six possible forms:
   2907 
   2908       0x80483BF: really (a.c:20)
   2909       0x80483BF: really (in /foo/a.out)
   2910       0x80483BF: really
   2911       0x80483BF: (within /foo/a.out)
   2912       0x80483BF: ??? (a.c:20)
   2913       0x80483BF: ???
   2914 
   2915     The third and fourth of these forms have been made more consistent
   2916     with the others.  The six possible forms are now:
   2917   
   2918       0x80483BF: really (a.c:20)
   2919       0x80483BF: really (in /foo/a.out)
   2920       0x80483BF: really (in ???)
   2921       0x80483BF: ??? (in /foo/a.out)
   2922       0x80483BF: ??? (a.c:20)
   2923       0x80483BF: ???
   2924 
   2925     Stack traces produced when --xml=yes is specified are different
   2926     and unchanged.
   2927 
   2928 
   2929 * Helgrind and Ptrcheck now support XML output, so they can be used
   2930   from GUI tools.  Also, the XML output mechanism has been
   2931   overhauled.
   2932 
   2933   - The XML format has been overhauled and generalised, so it is more
   2934     suitable for error reporting tools in general.  The Memcheck
   2935     specific aspects of it have been removed.  The new format, which
   2936     is an evolution of the old format, is described in
   2937     docs/internals/xml-output-protocol4.txt.
   2938 
   2939   - Memcheck has been updated to use the new format.
   2940 
   2941   - Helgrind and Ptrcheck are now able to emit output in this format.
   2942 
   2943   - The XML output mechanism has been overhauled.  XML is now output
   2944     to its own file descriptor, which means that:
   2945 
   2946     * Valgrind can output text and XML independently.
   2947 
   2948     * The longstanding problem of XML output being corrupted by 
   2949       unexpected un-tagged text messages  is solved.
   2950 
   2951     As before, the destination for text output is specified using
   2952     --log-file=, --log-fd= or --log-socket=.
   2953 
   2954     As before, XML output for a tool is enabled using --xml=yes.
   2955 
   2956     Because there's a new XML output channel, the XML output
   2957     destination is now specified by --xml-file=, --xml-fd= or
   2958     --xml-socket=.
   2959 
   2960     Initial feedback has shown this causes some confusion.  To
   2961     clarify, the two envisaged usage scenarios are:
   2962 
   2963     (1) Normal text output.  In this case, do not specify --xml=yes
   2964         nor any of --xml-file=, --xml-fd= or --xml-socket=.
   2965 
   2966     (2) XML output.  In this case, specify --xml=yes, and one of
   2967         --xml-file=, --xml-fd= or --xml-socket= to select the XML
   2968         destination, one of --log-file=, --log-fd= or --log-socket=
   2969         to select the destination for any remaining text messages,
   2970         and, importantly, -q.
   2971 
   2972         -q makes Valgrind completely silent on the text channel,
   2973         except in the case of critical failures, such as Valgrind
   2974         itself segfaulting, or failing to read debugging information.
   2975         Hence, in this scenario, it suffices to check whether or not
   2976         any output appeared on the text channel.  If yes, then it is
   2977         likely to be a critical error which should be brought to the
   2978         attention of the user.  If no (the text channel produced no
   2979         output) then it can be assumed that the run was successful.
   2980 
   2981         This allows GUIs to make the critical distinction they need to
   2982         make (did the run fail or not?) without having to search or
   2983         filter the text output channel in any way.
   2984 
   2985     It is also recommended to use --child-silent-after-fork=yes in
   2986     scenario (2).
   2987 
   2988 
   2989 * Improvements and changes in Helgrind:
   2990 
   2991   - XML output, as described above
   2992 
   2993   - Checks for consistent association between pthread condition
   2994     variables and their associated mutexes are now performed.
   2995 
   2996   - pthread_spinlock functions are supported.
   2997 
   2998   - Modest performance improvements.
   2999 
   3000   - Initial (skeletal) support for describing the behaviour of
   3001     non-POSIX synchronisation objects through ThreadSanitizer
   3002     compatible ANNOTATE_* macros.
   3003 
   3004   - More controllable tradeoffs between performance and the level of
   3005     detail of "previous" accesses in a race.  There are now three
   3006     settings:
   3007 
   3008     * --history-level=full.  This is the default, and was also the
   3009       default in 3.4.x.  It shows both stacks involved in a race, but
   3010       requires a lot of memory and can be very slow in programs that
   3011       do many inter-thread synchronisation events.
   3012 
   3013     * --history-level=none.  This only shows the later stack involved
   3014       in a race.  This can be much faster than --history-level=full,
   3015       but makes it much more difficult to find the other access
   3016       involved in the race.
   3017 
   3018     The new intermediate setting is
   3019 
   3020     * --history-level=approx
   3021 
   3022       For the earlier (other) access, two stacks are presented.  The
   3023       earlier access is guaranteed to be somewhere in between the two
   3024       program points denoted by those stacks.  This is not as useful
   3025       as showing the exact stack for the previous access (as per
   3026       --history-level=full), but it is better than nothing, and it's
   3027       almost as fast as --history-level=none.
   3028 
   3029 
   3030 * New features and improvements in DRD:
   3031 
   3032   - The error messages printed by DRD are now easier to interpret.
   3033     Instead of using two different numbers to identify each thread
   3034     (Valgrind thread ID and DRD thread ID), DRD does now identify
   3035     threads via a single number (the DRD thread ID).  Furthermore
   3036     "first observed at" information is now printed for all error
   3037     messages related to synchronization objects.
   3038 
   3039   - Added support for named semaphores (sem_open() and sem_close()).
   3040 
   3041   - Race conditions between pthread_barrier_wait() and
   3042     pthread_barrier_destroy() calls are now reported.
   3043 
   3044   - Added support for custom allocators through the macros
   3045     VALGRIND_MALLOCLIKE_BLOCK() VALGRIND_FREELIKE_BLOCK() (defined in
   3046     in <valgrind/valgrind.h>). An alternative for these two macros is
   3047     the new client request VG_USERREQ__DRD_CLEAN_MEMORY (defined in
   3048     <valgrind/drd.h>).
   3049 
   3050   - Added support for annotating non-POSIX synchronization objects
   3051     through several new ANNOTATE_*() macros.
   3052 
   3053   - OpenMP: added support for the OpenMP runtime (libgomp) included
   3054     with gcc versions 4.3.0 and 4.4.0.
   3055 
   3056   - Faster operation.
   3057 
   3058   - Added two new command-line options (--first-race-only and
   3059     --segment-merging-interval).
   3060 
   3061 
   3062 * Genuinely atomic support for x86/amd64/ppc atomic instructions
   3063 
   3064   Valgrind will now preserve (memory-access) atomicity of LOCK-
   3065   prefixed x86/amd64 instructions, and any others implying a global
   3066   bus lock.  Ditto for PowerPC l{w,d}arx/st{w,d}cx. instructions.
   3067 
   3068   This means that Valgrinded processes will "play nicely" in
   3069   situations where communication with other processes, or the kernel,
   3070   is done through shared memory and coordinated with such atomic
   3071   instructions.  Prior to this change, such arrangements usually
   3072   resulted in hangs, races or other synchronisation failures, because
   3073   Valgrind did not honour atomicity of such instructions.
   3074 
   3075 
   3076 * A new experimental tool, BBV, has been added.  BBV generates basic
   3077   block vectors for use with the SimPoint analysis tool, which allows
   3078   a program's overall behaviour to be approximated by running only a
   3079   fraction of it.  This is useful for computer architecture
   3080   researchers.  You can run BBV by specifying --tool=exp-bbv (the
   3081   "exp-" prefix is short for "experimental").  BBV was written by
   3082   Vince Weaver.
   3083 
   3084 
   3085 * Modestly improved support for running Windows applications under
   3086   Wine.  In particular, initial support for reading Windows .PDB debug
   3087   information has been added.
   3088 
   3089 
   3090 * A new Memcheck client request VALGRIND_COUNT_LEAK_BLOCKS has been
   3091   added.  It is similar to VALGRIND_COUNT_LEAKS but counts blocks
   3092   instead of bytes.
   3093 
   3094 
   3095 * The Valgrind client requests VALGRIND_PRINTF and
   3096   VALGRIND_PRINTF_BACKTRACE have been changed slightly.  Previously,
   3097   the string was always printed immediately on its own line.  Now, the
   3098   string will be added to a buffer but not printed until a newline is
   3099   encountered, or other Valgrind output is printed (note that for
   3100   VALGRIND_PRINTF_BACKTRACE, the back-trace itself is considered
   3101   "other Valgrind output").  This allows you to use multiple
   3102   VALGRIND_PRINTF calls to build up a single output line, and also to
   3103   print multiple output lines with a single request (by embedding
   3104   multiple newlines in the string).
   3105 
   3106 
   3107 * The graphs drawn by Massif's ms_print program have changed slightly:
   3108 
   3109   - The half-height chars '.' and ',' are no longer drawn, because
   3110     they are confusing.  The --y option can be used if the default
   3111     y-resolution is not high enough.
   3112 
   3113   - Horizontal lines are now drawn after the top of a snapshot if
   3114     there is a gap until the next snapshot.  This makes it clear that
   3115     the memory usage has not dropped to zero between snapshots.
   3116 
   3117 
   3118 * Something that happened in 3.4.0, but wasn't clearly announced: the
   3119   option --read-var-info=yes can be used by some tools (Memcheck,
   3120   Helgrind and DRD).  When enabled, it causes Valgrind to read DWARF3
   3121   variable type and location information.  This makes those tools
   3122   start up more slowly and increases memory consumption, but
   3123   descriptions of data addresses in error messages become more
   3124   detailed.
   3125 
   3126 
   3127 * exp-Omega, an experimental instantaneous leak-detecting tool, was
   3128   disabled in 3.4.0 due to a lack of interest and maintenance,
   3129   although the source code was still in the distribution.  The source
   3130   code has now been removed from the distribution.  For anyone
   3131   interested, the removal occurred in SVN revision r10247.
   3132 
   3133 
   3134 * Some changes have been made to the build system.
   3135 
   3136   - VEX/ is now integrated properly into the build system.  This means
   3137     that dependency tracking within VEX/ now works properly, "make
   3138     install" will work without requiring "make" before it, and
   3139     parallel builds (ie. 'make -j') now work (previously a
   3140     .NOTPARALLEL directive was used to serialize builds, ie. 'make -j'
   3141     was effectively ignored).
   3142 
   3143   - The --with-vex configure option has been removed.  It was of
   3144     little use and removing it simplified the build system.
   3145 
   3146   - The location of some install files has changed.  This should not
   3147     affect most users.  Those who might be affected:
   3148 
   3149     * For people who use Valgrind with MPI programs, the installed
   3150       libmpiwrap.so library has moved from
   3151       $(INSTALL)/<platform>/libmpiwrap.so to
   3152       $(INSTALL)/libmpiwrap-<platform>.so.
   3153 
   3154     * For people who distribute standalone Valgrind tools, the
   3155       installed libraries such as $(INSTALL)/<platform>/libcoregrind.a
   3156       have moved to $(INSTALL)/libcoregrind-<platform>.a.
   3157 
   3158     These changes simplify the build system.
   3159 
   3160   - Previously, all the distributed suppression (*.supp) files were
   3161     installed.  Now, only default.supp is installed.  This should not
   3162     affect users as the other installed suppression files were not
   3163     read; the fact that they were installed was a mistake.
   3164 
   3165 
   3166 * KNOWN LIMITATIONS:
   3167 
   3168   - Memcheck is unusable with the Intel compiler suite version 11.1,
   3169     when it generates code for SSE2-and-above capable targets.  This
   3170     is because of icc's use of highly optimised inlined strlen
   3171     implementations.  It causes Memcheck to report huge numbers of
   3172     false errors even in simple programs.  Helgrind and DRD may also
   3173     have problems.
   3174 
   3175     Versions 11.0 and earlier may be OK, but this has not been
   3176     properly tested.
   3177 
   3178 
   3179 The following bugs have been fixed or resolved.  Note that "n-i-bz"
   3180 stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
   3181 but never got a bugzilla entry.  We encourage you to file bugs in
   3182 bugzilla (http://bugs.kde.org/enter_valgrind_bug.cgi) rather than
   3183 mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that are
   3184 not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
   3185 
   3186 To see details of a given bug, visit
   3187 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
   3188 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed below.
   3189 
   3190 84303   How about a LockCheck tool? 
   3191 91633   dereference of null ptr in vgPlain_st_basetype 
   3192 97452   Valgrind doesn't report any pthreads problems 
   3193 100628  leak-check gets assertion failure when using 
   3194         VALGRIND_MALLOCLIKE_BLOCK on malloc()ed memory 
   3195 108528  NPTL pthread cleanup handlers not called 
   3196 110126  Valgrind 2.4.1 configure.in tramples CFLAGS 
   3197 110128  mallinfo is not implemented... 
   3198 110770  VEX: Generated files not always updated when making valgrind
   3199 111102  Memcheck: problems with large (memory footprint) applications 
   3200 115673  Vex's decoder should never assert 
   3201 117564  False positive: Syscall param clone(child_tidptr) contains
   3202         uninitialised byte(s) 
   3203 119404  executing ssh from inside valgrind fails 
   3204 133679  Callgrind does not write path names to sources with dwarf debug
   3205         info
   3206 135847  configure.in problem with non gnu compilers (and possible fix) 
   3207 136154  threads.c:273 (vgCallgrind_post_signal): Assertion
   3208         '*(vgCallgrind_current_fn_stack.top) == 0' failed. 
   3209 136230  memcheck reports "possibly lost", should be "still reachable" 
   3210 137073  NULL arg to MALLOCLIKE_BLOCK causes crash 
   3211 137904  Valgrind reports a memory leak when using POSIX threads,
   3212         while it shouldn't 
   3213 139076  valgrind VT_GETSTATE error 
   3214 142228  complaint of elf_dynamic_do_rela in trivial usage 
   3215 145347  spurious warning with USBDEVFS_REAPURB 
   3216 148441  (wine) can't find memory leak in Wine, win32 binary 
   3217         executable file.
   3218 148742  Leak-check fails assert on exit 
   3219 149878  add (proper) check for calloc integer overflow 
   3220 150606  Call graph is broken when using callgrind control 
   3221 152393  leak errors produce an exit code of 0. I need some way to 
   3222         cause leak errors to result in a nonzero exit code. 
   3223 157154  documentation (leak-resolution doc speaks about num-callers
   3224         def=4) + what is a loss record
   3225 159501  incorrect handling of ALSA ioctls 
   3226 162020  Valgrinding an empty/zero-byte file crashes valgrind 
   3227 162482  ppc: Valgrind crashes while reading stabs information 
   3228 162718  x86: avoid segment selector 0 in sys_set_thread_area() 
   3229 163253  (wine) canonicaliseSymtab forgot some fields in DiSym 
   3230 163560  VEX/test_main.c is missing from valgrind-3.3.1 
   3231 164353  malloc_usable_size() doesn't return a usable size 
   3232 165468  Inconsistent formatting in memcheck manual -- please fix 
   3233 169505  main.c:286 (endOfInstr):
   3234         Assertion 'ii->cost_offset == *cost_offset' failed 
   3235 177206  Generate default.supp during compile instead of configure
   3236 177209  Configure valt_load_address based on arch+os 
   3237 177305  eventfd / syscall 323 patch lost
   3238 179731  Tests fail to build because of inlining of non-local asm labels
   3239 181394  helgrind: libhb_core.c:3762 (msm_write): Assertion 
   3240         'ordxx == POrd_EQ || ordxx == POrd_LT' failed. 
   3241 181594  Bogus warning for empty text segment 
   3242 181707  dwarf doesn't require enumerations to have name 
   3243 185038  exp-ptrcheck: "unhandled syscall: 285" (fallocate) on x86_64 
   3244 185050  exp-ptrcheck: sg_main.c:727 (add_block_to_GlobalTree):
   3245         Assertion '!already_present' failed.
   3246 185359  exp-ptrcheck: unhandled syscall getresuid()
   3247 185794  "WARNING: unhandled syscall: 285" (fallocate) on x86_64
   3248 185816  Valgrind is unable to handle debug info for files with split
   3249         debug info that are prelinked afterwards 
   3250 185980  [darwin] unhandled syscall: sem_open 
   3251 186238  bbToIR_AMD64: disInstr miscalculated next %rip
   3252 186507  exp-ptrcheck unhandled syscalls prctl, etc. 
   3253 186790  Suppression pattern used for leaks are not reported 
   3254 186796  Symbols with length>200 in suppression files are ignored 
   3255 187048  drd: mutex PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED attribute missinterpretation
   3256 187416  exp-ptrcheck: support for __NR_{setregid,setreuid,setresuid}
   3257 188038  helgrind: hg_main.c:926: mk_SHVAL_fail: the 'impossible' happened
   3258 188046  bashisms in the configure script
   3259 188127  amd64->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0xF0 0xF 0xB0 0xA
   3260 188161  memcheck: --track-origins=yes asserts "mc_machine.c:672
   3261         (get_otrack_shadow_offset_wrk): the 'impossible' happened."
   3262 188248  helgrind: pthread_cleanup_push, pthread_rwlock_unlock, 
   3263         assertion fail "!lock->heldBy" 
   3264 188427  Add support for epoll_create1 (with patch) 
   3265 188530  Support for SIOCGSTAMPNS
   3266 188560  Include valgrind.spec in the tarball
   3267 188572  Valgrind on Mac should suppress setenv() mem leak 
   3268 189054  Valgrind fails to build because of duplicate non-local asm labels 
   3269 189737  vex amd64->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0xAC
   3270 189762  epoll_create syscall not handled (--tool=exp-ptrcheck)
   3271 189763  drd assertion failure: s_threadinfo[tid].is_recording 
   3272 190219  unhandled syscall: 328 (x86-linux)
   3273 190391  dup of 181394; see above
   3274 190429  Valgrind reports lots of errors in ld.so with x86_64 2.9.90 glibc 
   3275 190820  No debug information on powerpc-linux
   3276 191095  PATCH: Improve usbdevfs ioctl handling 
   3277 191182  memcheck: VALGRIND_LEAK_CHECK quadratic when big nr of chunks
   3278         or big nr of errors
   3279 191189  --xml=yes should obey --gen-suppressions=all 
   3280 191192  syslog() needs a suppression on macosx 
   3281 191271  DARWIN: WARNING: unhandled syscall: 33554697 a.k.a.: 265 
   3282 191761  getrlimit on MacOSX 
   3283 191992  multiple --fn-skip only works sometimes; dependent on order 
   3284 192634  V. reports "aspacem sync_check_mapping_callback: 
   3285         segment mismatch" on Darwin
   3286 192954  __extension__ missing on 2 client requests 
   3287 194429  Crash at start-up with glibc-2.10.1 and linux-2.6.29 
   3288 194474  "INSTALL" file has different build instructions than "README"
   3289 194671  Unhandled syscall (sem_wait?) from mac valgrind 
   3290 195069  memcheck: reports leak (memory still reachable) for 
   3291         printf("%d', x) 
   3292 195169  drd: (vgDrd_barrier_post_wait):
   3293         Assertion 'r->sg[p->post_iteration]' failed. 
   3294 195268  valgrind --log-file doesn't accept ~/...
   3295 195838  VEX abort: LibVEX_N_SPILL_BYTES too small for CPUID boilerplate 
   3296 195860  WARNING: unhandled syscall: unix:223 
   3297 196528  need a error suppression for pthread_rwlock_init under os x? 
   3298 197227  Support aio_* syscalls on Darwin
   3299 197456  valgrind should reject --suppressions=(directory) 
   3300 197512  DWARF2 CFI reader: unhandled CFI instruction 0:10 
   3301 197591  unhandled syscall 27 (mincore) 
   3302 197793  Merge DCAS branch to the trunk == 85756, 142103
   3303 197794  Avoid duplicate filenames in Vex 
   3304 197898  make check fails on current SVN 
   3305 197901  make check fails also under exp-ptrcheck in current SVN 
   3306 197929  Make --leak-resolution=high the default 
   3307 197930  Reduce spacing between leak reports 
   3308 197933  Print command line of client at start-up, and shorten preamble 
   3309 197966  unhandled syscall 205 (x86-linux, --tool=exp-ptrcheck)
   3310 198395  add BBV to the distribution as an experimental tool 
   3311 198624  Missing syscalls on Darwin: 82, 167, 281, 347 
   3312 198649  callgrind_annotate doesn't cumulate counters 
   3313 199338  callgrind_annotate sorting/thresholds are broken for all but Ir 
   3314 199977  Valgrind complains about an unrecognized instruction in the
   3315         atomic_incs test program
   3316 200029  valgrind isn't able to read Fedora 12 debuginfo 
   3317 200760  darwin unhandled syscall: unix:284 
   3318 200827  DRD doesn't work on Mac OS X 
   3319 200990  VG_(read_millisecond_timer)() does not work correctly 
   3320 201016  Valgrind does not support pthread_kill() on Mac OS 
   3321 201169  Document --read-var-info
   3322 201323  Pre-3.5.0 performance sanity checking 
   3323 201384  Review user manual for the 3.5.0 release 
   3324 201585  mfpvr not implemented on ppc 
   3325 201708  tests failing because x86 direction flag is left set 
   3326 201757  Valgrind doesn't handle any recent sys_futex additions 
   3327 204377  64-bit valgrind can not start a shell script
   3328         (with #!/path/to/shell) if the shell is a 32-bit executable
   3329 n-i-bz  drd: fixed assertion failure triggered by mutex reinitialization.
   3330 n-i-bz  drd: fixed a bug that caused incorrect messages to be printed
   3331         about memory allocation events with memory access tracing enabled
   3332 n-i-bz  drd: fixed a memory leak triggered by vector clock deallocation
   3333 
   3334 (3.5.0: 19 Aug 2009, vex r1913, valgrind r10846).
   3335 
   3336 
   3337 
   3338 Release 3.4.1 (28 February 2009)
   3339 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   3340 3.4.1 is a bug-fix release that fixes some regressions and assertion
   3341 failures in debug info reading in 3.4.0, most notably incorrect stack
   3342 traces on amd64-linux on older (glibc-2.3 based) systems. Various
   3343 other debug info problems are also fixed.  A number of bugs in the
   3344 exp-ptrcheck tool introduced in 3.4.0 have been fixed.
   3345 
   3346 In view of the fact that 3.4.0 contains user-visible regressions
   3347 relative to 3.3.x, upgrading to 3.4.1 is recommended.  Packagers are
   3348 encouraged to ship 3.4.1 in preference to 3.4.0.
   3349 
   3350 The fixed bugs are as follows.  Note that "n-i-bz" stands for "not in
   3351 bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us but never got a
   3352 bugzilla entry.  We encourage you to file bugs in bugzilla
   3353 (http://bugs.kde.org/enter_valgrind_bug.cgi) rather than mailing the
   3354 developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that are not entered
   3355 into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
   3356 
   3357 n-i-bz  Fix various bugs reading icc-11 generated debug info
   3358 n-i-bz  Fix various bugs reading gcc-4.4 generated debug info
   3359 n-i-bz  Preliminary support for glibc-2.10 / Fedora 11
   3360 n-i-bz  Cachegrind and Callgrind: handle non-power-of-two cache sizes,
   3361         so as to support (eg) 24k Atom D1 and Core2 with 3/6/12MB L2.
   3362 179618  exp-ptrcheck crashed / exit prematurely
   3363 179624  helgrind: false positive races with pthread_create and
   3364         recv/open/close/read
   3365 134207  pkg-config output contains @VG_PLATFORM@
   3366 176926  floating point exception at valgrind startup with PPC 440EPX
   3367 181594  Bogus warning for empty text segment
   3368 173751  amd64->IR: 0x48 0xF 0x6F 0x45 (even more redundant rex prefixes)
   3369 181707  Dwarf3 doesn't require enumerations to have name
   3370 185038  exp-ptrcheck: "unhandled syscall: 285" (fallocate) on x86_64
   3371 185050  exp-ptrcheck: sg_main.c:727 (add_block_to_GlobalTree):
   3372         Assertion '!already_present' failed.
   3373 185359  exp-ptrcheck unhandled syscall getresuid()
   3374 
   3375 (3.4.1.RC1:  24 Feb 2008, vex r1884, valgrind r9253).
   3376 (3.4.1:      28 Feb 2008, vex r1884, valgrind r9293).
   3377 
   3378 
   3379 
   3380 Release 3.4.0 (2 January 2009)
   3381 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   3382 3.4.0 is a feature release with many significant improvements and the
   3383 usual collection of bug fixes.  This release supports X86/Linux,
   3384 AMD64/Linux, PPC32/Linux and PPC64/Linux.  Support for recent distros
   3385 (using gcc 4.4, glibc 2.8 and 2.9) has been added.
   3386 
   3387 3.4.0 brings some significant tool improvements.  Memcheck can now
   3388 report the origin of uninitialised values, the thread checkers
   3389 Helgrind and DRD are much improved, and we have a new experimental
   3390 tool, exp-Ptrcheck, which is able to detect overruns of stack and
   3391 global arrays.  In detail:
   3392 
   3393 * Memcheck is now able to track the origin of uninitialised values.
   3394   When it reports an uninitialised value error, it will try to show
   3395   the origin of the value, as either a heap or stack allocation.
   3396   Origin tracking is expensive and so is not enabled by default.  To
   3397   use it, specify --track-origins=yes.  Memcheck's speed will be
   3398   essentially halved, and memory usage will be significantly
   3399   increased.  Nevertheless it can drastically reduce the effort
   3400   required to identify the root cause of uninitialised value errors,
   3401   and so is often a programmer productivity win, despite running more
   3402   slowly.
   3403 
   3404 * A version (1.4.0) of the Valkyrie GUI, that works with Memcheck in
   3405   3.4.0, will be released shortly.
   3406 
   3407 * Helgrind's race detection algorithm has been completely redesigned
   3408   and reimplemented, to address usability and scalability concerns:
   3409 
   3410   - The new algorithm has a lower false-error rate: it is much less
   3411     likely to report races that do not really exist.
   3412 
   3413   - Helgrind will display full call stacks for both accesses involved
   3414     in a race.  This makes it easier to identify the root causes of
   3415     races.
   3416 
   3417   - Limitations on the size of program that can run have been removed.
   3418 
   3419   - Performance has been modestly improved, although that is very
   3420     workload-dependent.
   3421 
   3422   - Direct support for Qt4 threading has been added.
   3423 
   3424   - pthread_barriers are now directly supported.
   3425 
   3426   - Helgrind works well on all supported Linux targets.
   3427 
   3428 * The DRD thread debugging tool has seen major improvements:
   3429 
   3430   - Greatly improved performance and significantly reduced memory
   3431     usage.
   3432 
   3433   - Support for several major threading libraries (Boost.Thread, Qt4,
   3434     glib, OpenMP) has been added.
   3435 
   3436   - Support for atomic instructions, POSIX semaphores, barriers and
   3437     reader-writer locks has been added.
   3438 
   3439   - Works now on PowerPC CPUs too.
   3440 
   3441   - Added support for printing thread stack usage at thread exit time.
   3442 
   3443   - Added support for debugging lock contention.
   3444 
   3445   - Added a manual for Drd.
   3446 
   3447 * A new experimental tool, exp-Ptrcheck, has been added.  Ptrcheck
   3448   checks for misuses of pointers.  In that sense it is a bit like
   3449   Memcheck.  However, Ptrcheck can do things Memcheck can't: it can
   3450   detect overruns of stack and global arrays, it can detect
   3451   arbitrarily far out-of-bounds accesses to heap blocks, and it can
   3452   detect accesses heap blocks that have been freed a very long time
   3453   ago (millions of blocks in the past).
   3454 
   3455   Ptrcheck currently works only on x86-linux and amd64-linux.  To use
   3456   it, use --tool=exp-ptrcheck.  A simple manual is provided, as part
   3457   of the main Valgrind documentation.  As this is an experimental
   3458   tool, we would be particularly interested in hearing about your
   3459   experiences with it.
   3460 
   3461 * exp-Omega, an experimental instantaneous leak-detecting tool, is no
   3462   longer built by default, although the code remains in the repository
   3463   and the tarball.  This is due to three factors: a perceived lack of
   3464   users, a lack of maintenance, and concerns that it may not be
   3465   possible to achieve reliable operation using the existing design.
   3466 
   3467 * As usual, support for the latest Linux distros and toolchain
   3468   components has been added.  It should work well on Fedora Core 10,
   3469   OpenSUSE 11.1 and Ubuntu 8.10.  gcc-4.4 (in its current pre-release
   3470   state) is supported, as is glibc-2.9.  The C++ demangler has been
   3471   updated so as to work well with C++ compiled by even the most recent
   3472   g++'s.
   3473 
   3474 * You can now use frame-level wildcards in suppressions.  This was a
   3475   frequently-requested enhancement.  A line "..." in a suppression now
   3476   matches zero or more frames.  This makes it easier to write
   3477   suppressions which are precise yet insensitive to changes in
   3478   inlining behaviour.
   3479 
   3480 * 3.4.0 adds support on x86/amd64 for the SSSE3 instruction set.
   3481 
   3482 * Very basic support for IBM Power6 has been added (64-bit processes only).
   3483 
   3484 * Valgrind is now cross-compilable.  For example, it is possible to
   3485   cross compile Valgrind on an x86/amd64-linux host, so that it runs
   3486   on a ppc32/64-linux target.
   3487 
   3488 * You can set the main thread's stack size at startup using the
   3489   new --main-stacksize= flag (subject of course to ulimit settings).
   3490   This is useful for running apps that need a lot of stack space.
   3491 
   3492 * The limitation that you can't use --trace-children=yes together
   3493   with --db-attach=yes has been removed.
   3494 
   3495 * The following bugs have been fixed.  Note that "n-i-bz" stands for
   3496   "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us but
   3497   never got a bugzilla entry.  We encourage you to file bugs in
   3498   bugzilla (http://bugs.kde.org/enter_valgrind_bug.cgi) rather than
   3499   mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly.
   3500 
   3501   n-i-bz  Make return types for some client requests 64-bit clean
   3502   n-i-bz  glibc 2.9 support
   3503   n-i-bz  ignore unsafe .valgrindrc's (CVE-2008-4865)
   3504   n-i-bz  MPI_Init(0,0) is valid but libmpiwrap.c segfaults
   3505   n-i-bz  Building in an env without gdb gives bogus gdb attach
   3506   92456   Tracing the origin of uninitialised memory
   3507   106497  Valgrind does not demangle some C++ template symbols
   3508   162222  ==106497
   3509   151612  Suppression with "..." (frame-level wildcards in .supp files)
   3510   156404  Unable to start oocalc under memcheck on openSUSE 10.3 (64-bit)
   3511   159285  unhandled syscall:25 (stime, on x86-linux)
   3512   159452  unhandled ioctl 0x8B01 on "valgrind iwconfig"
   3513   160954  ppc build of valgrind crashes with illegal instruction (isel)
   3514   160956  mallinfo implementation, w/ patch
   3515   162092  Valgrind fails to start gnome-system-monitor
   3516   162819  malloc_free_fill test doesn't pass on glibc2.8 x86
   3517   163794  assertion failure with "--track-origins=yes"
   3518   163933  sigcontext.err and .trapno must be set together
   3519   163955  remove constraint !(--db-attach=yes && --trace-children=yes)
   3520   164476  Missing kernel module loading system calls
   3521   164669  SVN regression: mmap() drops posix file locks
   3522   166581  Callgrind output corruption when program forks
   3523   167288  Patch file for missing system calls on Cell BE
   3524   168943  unsupported scas instruction pentium
   3525   171645  Unrecognised instruction (MOVSD, non-binutils encoding)
   3526   172417  x86->IR: 0x82 ...
   3527   172563  amd64->IR: 0xD9 0xF5  -  fprem1
   3528   173099  .lds linker script generation error
   3529   173177  [x86_64] syscalls: 125/126/179 (capget/capset/quotactl)
   3530   173751  amd64->IR: 0x48 0xF 0x6F 0x45 (even more redundant prefixes)
   3531   174532  == 173751
   3532   174908  --log-file value not expanded correctly for core file
   3533   175044  Add lookup_dcookie for amd64
   3534   175150  x86->IR: 0xF2 0xF 0x11 0xC1 (movss non-binutils encoding)
   3535 
   3536 Developer-visible changes:
   3537 
   3538 * Valgrind's debug-info reading machinery has been majorly overhauled.
   3539   It can now correctly establish the addresses for ELF data symbols,
   3540   which is something that has never worked properly before now.
   3541 
   3542   Also, Valgrind can now read DWARF3 type and location information for
   3543   stack and global variables.  This makes it possible to use the
   3544   framework to build tools that rely on knowing the type and locations
   3545   of stack and global variables, for example exp-Ptrcheck.
   3546 
   3547   Reading of such information is disabled by default, because most
   3548   tools don't need it, and because it is expensive in space and time.
   3549   However, you can force Valgrind to read it, using the
   3550   --read-var-info=yes flag.  Memcheck, Helgrind and DRD are able to
   3551   make use of such information, if present, to provide source-level
   3552   descriptions of data addresses in the error messages they create.
   3553 
   3554 (3.4.0.RC1:  24 Dec 2008, vex r1878, valgrind r8882).
   3555 (3.4.0:       3 Jan 2009, vex r1878, valgrind r8899).
   3556