From: Nicholas Nethercote Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:43:14 +0000 (+0000) Subject: clarify self-hosting instructions X-Git-Tag: svn/VALGRIND_3_1_0~335 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=407e892adef56ccbc49ddfc79f0b048114929eb3;p=thirdparty%2Fvalgrind.git clarify self-hosting instructions git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@4897 --- diff --git a/README_DEVELOPERS b/README_DEVELOPERS index 60ee523a79..3724151154 100644 --- a/README_DEVELOPERS +++ b/README_DEVELOPERS @@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ To run Valgrind under Valgrind: --tool=cachegrind -v inner/.../bin/valgrind --tool=none -v prog It's fragile, confusing and slow, but it does work well enough for -you to get some useful performance data. At the time of writing -the allocator is not annotated with client requests so Memcheck is -not as useful as it could be. +you to get some useful performance data. The inner Valgrind has most of +its output (ie. those lines beginning with "====") prefixed with a +'>', which helps a lot. + +At the time of writing the allocator is not annotated with client requests +so Memcheck is not as useful as it could be. It also has not been tested +much, so don't be surprised if you hit problems.