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| 22 | <title>Cachegrind</title> |
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| 28 | <h1 align=center>Helgrind</h1> |
| 29 | <center>This manual was last updated on 2002-10-03</center> |
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| 33 | <a href="mailto:njn25@cam.ac.uk">njn25@cam.ac.uk</a><br> |
| 34 | Copyright © 2000-2002 Nicholas Nethercote |
| 35 | <p> |
| 36 | Helgrind is licensed under the GNU General Public License, |
| 37 | version 2<br> |
| 38 | Helgrind is a Valgrind skin for detecting data races in threaded programs. |
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| 41 | <p> |
| 42 | |
| 43 | <h2>1 Helgrind</h2> |
| 44 | |
| 45 | Helgrind is a Valgrind skin for detecting data races in C and C++ programs |
| 46 | that use the Pthreads library. |
| 47 | <p> |
| 48 | It uses the Eraser algorithm described in |
| 49 | <blockquote> |
| 50 | Eraser: A Dynamic Data Race Detector for Multithreaded Programs<br> |
| 51 | Stefan Savage, Michael Burrows, Greg Nelson, Patrick Sobalvarro and |
| 52 | Thomas Anderson<br> |
| 53 | ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 15(4):391-411<br> |
| 54 | November 1997. |
| 55 | </blockquote> |
| 56 | |
| 57 | It is unfortunately in a rather mangy state and probably doesn't work at all. |
| 58 | We include it partly because it may serve as a useful example skin, and partly |
| 59 | in case anybody is inspired to improve it and get it working. |
| 60 | <p> |
| 61 | If you are inspired, we'd love to hear from you. And if you are successful, |
| 62 | you might like to include some improvements to the basic Eraser algorithm |
| 63 | described in Section 4.2 of |
| 64 | |
| 65 | <blockquote> |
| 66 | Runtime Checking of Multithreaded Applications with Visual Threads |
| 67 | Jerry J. Harrow, Jr.<br> |
| 68 | Proceedings of the 7th International SPIN Workshop on Model Checking of |
| 69 | Software<br> |
| 70 | Stanford, California, USA<br> |
| 71 | August 2000<br> |
| 72 | LNCS 1885, pp331--342<br> |
| 73 | K. Havelund, J. Penix, and W. Visser, editors.<br> |
| 74 | </blockquote> |
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