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RE: cygwin-gcc-fopen bug? (Purify)
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:14:53 -0000
- Subject: RE: cygwin-gcc-fopen bug? (Purify)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Jim Kleckner
> Sent: 10 December 2004 19:01
> We used to use Purify to find these sorts of problems
> often just by running the program once. Unfortunately
> for us using cygwin, Purify appears to have moved toward
> a firm dependence on VC. Also, it is quite expensive.
>
> However, since you say that you use Solaris you
> may be able to use it on that platform. Often,
> the trial period is all you need to find that
> pesky problem (and probably a host of others
> in the process...).
AAArrgh! It's a Rational tool! Oh no, run away!
> Has anyone out there gotten either Purify
> or BoundsChecker to work with Cygwin?
> I'll wager that if you could, Purify would
> pinpoint a lot of tricky issues extremely
> quickly. Maybe a tool to munge the symbol
> table into VC-compatible form?
Maybe we should try and port the free open-source equivalent valgrind
(http://valgrind.kde.org/) instead? I haven't ever looked at this, but it ought
to be possible. I note that you can use (a special variant version of) valgrind
to verify win32 apps running on WINE. So I guess there's a long-way-round to do
that already....
cheers,
DaveK
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