Re: [Valgrind-users] Multicore/multithreading and memory trace

2010-01-07 Thread Dave Goodell
On Jan 6, 2010, at 8:54 PM, tom fogal wrote: Side note to the valgrind devs: does the documentation need to be updated here? The last paragraph in Support for Threads (linked below) says that the use of atomic instruction sequences in shared memory between processes will not work reliably,

Re: [Valgrind-users] Multicore/multithreading and memory trace

2010-01-06 Thread Milind
Thanks for the quick reply Tom. I (again) went over the para that you have pointed out. Most of the discussion in that para and the Helgrind discussion seem to revolve around single CPU. I am not seeing any references to multicore system with concurrent running of threads . Multiple threads,

Re: [Valgrind-users] Multicore/multithreading and memory trace

2010-01-06 Thread tom fogal
Milind kmil...@gmail.com writes: Thanks for the quick reply Tom. I (again) went over the para that you have pointed out. Most of the discussion in that para and the Helgrind discussion seem to revolve around single CPU. I am not seeing any references to multicore system with concurrent