Re: [Valgrind-users] get the types and values of arguments

2009-02-19 Thread Josef Weidendorfer
On Thursday 19 February 2009, Chengnian Sun wrote: I have a question. How much information I could get from the debug-info? That depends on the debug info format used; I think you can concentrate on DWARF. You can check out in the specifiation what is available in principle, then look what a

Re: [Valgrind-users] get the types and values of arguments

2009-02-19 Thread Julian Seward
AFAIK, Julian recently added some functions to get at variable name for a given stack address. You need it the other way around: get information about number of parameter and types, and how to access them. Yes, that information (parameter names and types) is definitely in the Dwarf3, and the

[Valgrind-users] Valgrind 3.4 on PPC32

2009-02-19 Thread linux user
Has anybody had any success with Valgrind 3.4 on PPC32?I'd appreciate your input. Thanks. -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source:

Re: [Valgrind-users] Valgrind 3.4 on PPC32

2009-02-19 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:54 PM, linux user linuxuse...@gmail.com wrote: Has anybody had any success with Valgrind 3.4 on PPC32?I'd appreciate your input. According to the e-mails posted on the valgrind-users mailing list during the last few weeks, several people are running Valgrind 3.4

Re: [Valgrind-users] Running Helgrind from Valgrind 3.2.3 suite

2009-02-19 Thread Konstantin Serebryany
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:03 PM, linux user linuxuse...@gmail.com wrote: From what I understand,Valgrind 3.2.3 supports Helgrind. No, it does not. Try 3.4.1 --kcc It would be great if you could let me know if you are able to run Helgrind from the Valgrind 3.2.3 suite.After having built

Re: [Valgrind-users] Running Helgrind from Valgrind 3.2.3 suite

2009-02-19 Thread linux user
Konstatntin, So Valgrind 3.2.3 doesn't support Helgrind.Why doesn't the documentation/user manual for 3.2.3 say that? This is what the doc states: Note: Helgrind does not work in Valgrind 3.1.0. We hope to reinstate in version 3.2.0. That statement made me think that Valgrind 3.2.3 supports

[Valgrind-users] Valgrind results for multicore machines

2009-02-19 Thread Chaitali Gupta
Hi, I am a new user to Valgrind tool. I am trying to do cache profiling for a multi-threaded program written in C. I am using cachegrind to do so. Though the output is really descriptive, I could not find the results of L1 and L2 cache misses for different cores. I am running the