Re: Removind dmalloc and efence support?
On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 12:49:58AM +, Thomas Adam wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 01:42:33AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > Has anybody really used them in the last fifteen years? Since > > valgrind has become pretty stable and good I never saw a need for > > dmalloc or efence any more. > > I agree. It can go. Good. I'll make a patch. > I know Dan used to use one of the proprietary IBM profilers on fvwm's code > base from time-to-time as well, but I don't recall what that was called. Purify. It used to be quite good in finding the source of memory errors, better than Valgrind, but not the best tool available. With the steady Valgrind improvements and the amazing quality of warnings you get from Gcc it's less important nowadays. Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt
Re: Removind dmalloc and efence support?
On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 01:42:33AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: > Has anybody really used them in the last fifteen years? Since > valgrind has become pretty stable and good I never saw a need for > dmalloc or efence any more. I agree. It can go. There's a chance some distros ship efence (and possibly the BSDs), but it all pales in light of Valgrind. I know Dan used to use one of the proprietary IBM profilers on fvwm's code base from time-to-time as well, but I don't recall what that was called. Kindly, Thomas
Removind dmalloc and efence support?
Has anybody really used them in the last fifteen years? Since valgrind has become pretty stable and good I never saw a need for dmalloc or efence any more. Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt
