I went to file a bug report but was thwarted by the need to create yet another login to file a simple bug, and find Bugzilla an almost insurmountable hurdle anyway, so I will just mention my issues and suggestions here, and hope someone better tied into Valgrind development will pass it along. (That said, as a former Python core developer, I realize the need/desire for login credentials.)
I am a brand new Valgrind user, afflicted with some threading problems. I knew about the "memcheck" tool, but didn't know what any of the other tools were. While reading the man page, I saw mention of the Helgrind and DRD tools. "Great!" I thought. Alas, specifying "--tool=Helgrind" or "--tool=DRD" on the command line resulted in rather vague error: ... failed to start tool '<whatever>' for platform 'amd64-linux': ... Initially, I thought those tools were simply not available on my platform. Eventually, though, I figured out that tool names must be given in lower case. "Helgrind" and "DRD" appear to only be given with those spellings. I saw one instance of "helgrind" in the man page, but it was part of a larger compound word. I saw no mention of "drd". Further, I saw no enumeration of all the available tools. The --help output says that "memcheck" is the default tool. Any mention in --help output of other tools was secondary (mentioning tools which support various options). So, my recommendations: 1. Briefly enumerate all the possible tools somewhere, together in one place. This would be great in the man page. I think it would be less important in the --help output. 2. In --help output, at least mention that the toolname must be spelled in lowercase, no matter how it is spelled in the documentation. 3. (optional) Allow --tool to operate in a case-insensitive fashion. Thanks, Skip Montanaro s...@pobox.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available. Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list Valgrind-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
