Thanks for the amd64 clarification.

Valgrind doesn't seem to like the compiler argument you mentioned.  I got:

valgrind: Bad option: --trace-system-calls=yes
valgrind: Use --help for more information or consult the user manual.






On 7/12/12 3:08 PM, "John Reiser" <jrei...@bitwagon.com> wrote:

>> I'm running on a MacBook Pro with an Intel i7 CPU, so I'm not sure why
>>the primary build arch is amd64.
>
>Because the best [5-character] name of the 64-bit x86 architecture is
>amd64.
>AMD beat the pants off Intel in that round of the architecture wars.
>
>> 
>> The crash when running a WebKit test under Valgrind looks like the
>>following (some output has been removed):
>> 
>> ---- Output -----
>> ==21326== Memcheck, a memory error detector
>> ==21326== Copyright (C) 2002-2011, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et
>>al.
>> ==21326== Using Valgrind-3.8.0.SVN and LibVEX; rerun with -h for
>>copyright info
>> ==21326== Command:
>>/Users/jacobg/WebKit/WebKitBuild/Debug/DumpRenderTree -
>> ==21326==
>> 
>> UNKNOWN __pthread_sigmask is unsupported. This warning will not be
>>repeated.
>> vex amd64->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0xF 0xB 0x55 0x48 0x89 0xE5
>>0x41 0x56
>
>> ==21326== valgrind: Unrecognised instruction at address 0x9167b8c.
>
>0xF 0xB is 'ud2', the official two-byte "undefined opcode".
>The app has given up, and 'ud2' is an OS-independent way to guarantee an
>abort.
>(It's an infuriating bug that valgrind pretends not to know about 'ud2'.)
>
>The "real error" happened some time ago.  To help find it, please re-run:
>   valgrind  --trace-system-calls=yes  .../DumpRenderTree
>
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