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| Valgrind Roadmap |
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| This file serves as a rough roadmap for Valgrind development. It shows a |
| minimal set of features we hope to implement for each version. It's in |
| reverse chronological order. |
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| 3.1.0 |
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| Scheduled for around November 2005. |
| |
| Definite |
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| * Get 32-bit and 64-bit programs working smoothly on AMD64 (Tom?). Several |
| levels of smoothness here, we should aim for at least level 3. |
| |
| 1. Be able to build a 32-bit valgrind on a 64-bit machine, so you can |
| build and install both, and manually choose between bin/valgrind and |
| bin64/valgrind. |
| 2. Build both automatically when installing. |
| 3. Choose the appropriate executable automatically at startup just from |
| "valgrind". |
| 4. With --trace-children=yes, allow 32-bit programs to exec 64-bit |
| programs and vice versa, and invoke the appropriate Valgrind |
| automatically. |
| [Underway, by Tom] |
| |
| * Get PPC32 working usably with Memcheck (Julian). Has already improved a |
| lot since. Get Cachegrind working with it (Nick). |
| [Both almost there, by Julian] |
| |
| * Rewrite address space manager; statically link the core with |
| each tool; remove all glibc dependencies (Julian). |
| [Done by Julian] |
| [What about --time-stamp=yes?] |
| |
| * Make it work with GCC 2.95 (bug #111781) -- don't put declarations after |
| statements in blocks. Do it after merging ASPACEM with the trunk. |
| -Wdeclaration-after-statement is the GCC warning that detects this, but |
| it is only present in GCC after 3.4.0 (ie. not in 3.0.X--3.3.X)... |
| [Done by Tom and others] |
| |
| Maybe |
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| * Get pthread modelling and Helgrind working again. Requires function |
| wrapping (Nick). |
| |
| * Reinstate Addrcheck and/or implement V-bit compression in Memcheck (?). |
| |
| * Allow suppressions by filename + line number? (Joseph Link's patch) |