On 2/7/2012 5:13 PM, Julian Seward wrote:

I'm clear about the 2 repos business now :-) ...

>> I'll post the other missing instruction as a bug report
>> too.  I am also on the trail of something that looks like
>> an unimplemented (or differently implemented?) system call.
>> The Java program under test, which is the DaCapo eclipse
>> benchmark, complains that it can't create the workspace
>> it's going to work on, throws an exception, and quits.
>> There is no valgrind complaint. However, if I run the
>> benchmark without valgrind, it completes normally.
>>
>> Does valgrind restrict the number of open files? I noticed
>> that the benchmark had over 50 files open, and might have
>> hit a limit if it is set at 64 or something.
>>
>> My next step is to compare trace output without valgrind
>> to valgrind --trace-syscalls=yes and see where the system
>> calls majorly diverge.  Of course it could be something
>> else, but ...
>>
>> I also have one run that just core dumps. No valgrind
>> end-of-run stuff, no complaint, just a core dump. I
>> am scratching my head a bit on how to dig in on that
>> one, since it seems to have jumped to address 0 and
>> I don't get stack back trace ... but maybe I am
>> being simple-minded about how I use gdb on this ...
>
> You're running with --smc-check=all or (better, if it works)
> --smc-check=all-non-file, right?  These are mandatory when
> doing jitted code.  Omitting it will cause the program
> under test to run off the road and disappear into the shrubbery.

The former, not the latter -- perhaps slower but safer, no?
Someone who had used valgrind with a jitting JVM before clued
me in on that one :-) ...

Regards -- EM

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