Support for s390x Decimal Floating Point instructions on hosts that
have the DFP facility installed.
- Power8 (Power ISA 2.?? support)
-
- AVX2 support
+ Power8 (Power ISA 2.07 support)
+ Intel AVX2 support
Intel HTM support (kind of)
Power HTM support (kind of)
of various Valgrind aspects, including the Valgrind heap.
- The list of used suppressions (shown when giving the -v option)
- now gives the filename and linenr where the suppression is defined.
+ now gives the filename and line number where the suppression is defined.
- remote debuginfo server + overhaul of debuginfo reading
- some fixes for OSX 10.8
- partial-loads-ok now works for 16 and 32 byte loads
- and in general improved handling of vectorised code
+ and in general improved handling of vectorised code on Memcheck
- unwind-by-stack-scan for ARM
324227 memcheck false positive leak when a thread calls exit+block
only reachable via other thread live register
- FIXED
+ FIXED 13670
326091 drd: Avoid that optimized strlen() implementations trigger
false positive race reports.
FIXED 13664
+309430 Self hosting ppc64 encounters a vassert error on operand type
+ FIXED 2793
+
Release 3.8.1 (19 September 2012)
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324081 3.8.1 Valgrind periodically hangs in long-running application
NEEDINFO (requested)
-324227 memcheck false positive leak when a thread calls exit+block only
- reachable via other thread live register
- Inconclusive, after discussions with Philippe
- Severity: low Audience: med
-
324261 errorcount in xml output remains empty (no error pairs mentioned)
Hmm, looks like a real bug.
Severity: med Audience: low