From: Julian Seward <jseward@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:46:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Update.
X-Git-Tag: svn/VALGRIND_3_9_0~20
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=acddb7f8b33854c5d0ed3637fa06f38dce333ff7;p=thirdparty%2Fvalgrind.git

Update.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13671
---

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index dab8fb3805..9a2ec4b1b3 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,10 +11,9 @@ Release 3.9.0 (?? ?????? 201?)
   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)
 
@@ -88,14 +87,14 @@ Release 3.9.0 (?? ?????? 201?)
     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
 
@@ -692,12 +691,15 @@ DONE
 
 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)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/docs/internals/3_8_BUGSTATUS.txt b/docs/internals/3_8_BUGSTATUS.txt
index 0d30cc874b..827228ddda 100644
--- a/docs/internals/3_8_BUGSTATUS.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/3_8_BUGSTATUS.txt
@@ -512,11 +512,6 @@ Tue Jul  2 12:15:07 CEST 2013
 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