OLDER NEWS
- Fix assertion failure in pthread_once().
- Fix this:
valgrind: vg_intercept.c:598 (vgAllRoadsLeadToRome_select):
Assertion ‘ms_end >= ms_now’ failed.
- Implement pthread_mutexattr_setpshared.
- Understand Pentium 4 branch hints.
Also implemented a couple more
obscure x86 instructions.
- Lots of other minor bug fixes.
- We have a decent regression test system, for the first time.
This doesn’t help you directly, but it does make it a lot easier
for us to track the quality of the system, especially across
multiple linux distributions.
You can run the regression tests with ’make regtest’ after ’make
install’ completes.
On SuSE 8.2 and Red Hat 9 I get this:
== 84 tests, 0 stderr failures, 0 stdout failures ==
On Red Hat 8, I get this:
== 84 tests, 2 stderr failures, 1 stdout failure ==
corecheck/tests/res_search
(stdout)
memcheck/tests/sigaltstack
(stderr)
sigaltstack is probably harmless.
res_search doesn’t work
on R H 8 even running natively, so I’m not too worried.
On Red Hat 7.3, a glibc-2.2.5 system, I get these harmless failures:
== 84 tests, 2 stderr failures, 1 stdout failure ==
corecheck/tests/pth_atfork1
(stdout)
corecheck/tests/pth_atfork1
(stderr)
memcheck/tests/sigaltstack
(stderr)
You need to run on a PII system, at least, since some tests
contain P6-specific instructions, and the test machine needs
access to the internet so that corecheck/tests/res_search
(a test that the DNS resolver works) can function.
As ever, thanks for the vast amount of feedback :) and bug reports :(
We may not answer all messages, but we do at least look at all of
them, and tend to fix the most frequently reported bugs.
Version 1.9.6 (7 May 2003 or thereabouts)
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