tags 697853 confirmed kthxbye On gio, gen 10, 2013 at 01:07:58 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Package: valgrind > Version: 1:3.8.1-1 > Severity: normal > > > I believe we should not distribute SGCheck on PPC, ARM or S390X. As per > documentation: > > ... > Platforms: the stack/global checks won't work properly on PowerPC, ARM or > S390X platforms, only on X86 and AMD64 targets. That's because the stack and > global checking requires tracking function calls and exits reliably, and > there's no obvious way to do it on ABIs that use a link register for function > returns. > ...
There are many other <platform, tool> pairs that don't work (some probably not
even documented), so a more general mechanism to exclude particular tools on
specific platforms would be nice. I guess the hardest part would be to keep
track of what works where. I'll look into this.
Cheers
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