• Jason House (11/11) Jun 03 2007 Does anyone know if valgrind or similar products can work with D? If
• Frank Benoit (3/7) Jun 03 2007 I never used valgrind, but i know that there are ppl that use valgrind
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• Jason House (11/19) Jun 10 2007 I'd be interested in hearing from others who have used valgrind with
• Regan Heath (3/15) Jun 03 2007 I'm looking for a challenge, if you want you can send me the code (my em...

Jason House <jason.james.house gmail.com> writes:

Does anyone know if valgrind or similar products can work with D?  If 
so, how?  If not, does anyone know of the next best thing?  (like 
running the GC after every line of code in a particular function?)

Needless to say, I have a bug that's driving me crazy.  Somewhere fairly 
late in a loop equivalent to "for (int i=0; i<36100; i++) 
doSomething();", my program crashes in seemingly normal code with normal 
state.  doSomething passes all of its unit tests and passes my nieve 
code inspection.  I could even be looking in the wrong spot since the 
code is multithreaded...  (but the other threads are stuck in the 
equivalent of "while(foo()==false) yield;" while waiting for the other 
thing to finish.  (foo is a very simple function)

Frank Benoit <keinfarbton googlemail.com> writes:

Jason House schrieb:
 Does anyone know if valgrind or similar products can work with D?  If
 so, how?  If not, does anyone know of the next best thing?  (like
 running the GC after every line of code in a particular function?)
 

I never used valgrind, but i know that there are ppl that use valgrind
on linux with D (probably GDC).

Thomas Kuehne <thomas-dloop kuehne.cn> writes:

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Frank Benoit schrieb am 2007-06-03:
 Jason House schrieb:
 Does anyone know if valgrind or similar products can work with D?  If
 so, how?  If not, does anyone know of the next best thing?  (like
 running the GC after every line of code in a particular function?)
 

 I never used valgrind, but i know that there are ppl that use valgrind
 on linux with D (probably GDC).

Simply compile the application with debugging information and use
valgrind as you would do with a plain C application. Valgrind's bug
tracker contains a patch to add D demangler support. The demangling 
information is dated and using http://ddemangled.kuehne.cn
(either as a standalone or a pluging) should result in better results.

Thomas


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Jason House <jason.james.house gmail.com> writes:

Frank Benoit wrote:
 Jason House schrieb:
 Does anyone know if valgrind or similar products can work with D?  If
 so, how?  If not, does anyone know of the next best thing?  (like
 running the GC after every line of code in a particular function?)

 
 I never used valgrind, but i know that there are ppl that use valgrind
 on linux with D (probably GDC).

I'd be interested in hearing from others who have used valgrind with 
gdc.  It found issues immediately...  But it left me scratching my head. 
  It seems like code that should work doesn't in subtle ways.  For 
example, I opened a bug with the gdc project for my simplest example:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=791252&aid=1734477&group_id=154306

In the original code that drove me to experiment with this, the bug was 
reproducible on many platforms with gdc and never with dmd.  I only 
tested with valgrind on a single system, so I don't know if the valgrind 
insanity applies to other platforms.  I'd like to know if others have 
had similar issues.

Regan Heath <regan netmail.co.nz> writes:

Jason House Wrote:
 Does anyone know if valgrind or similar products can work with D?  If 
 so, how?  If not, does anyone know of the next best thing?  (like 
 running the GC after every line of code in a particular function?)
 
 Needless to say, I have a bug that's driving me crazy.  Somewhere fairly 
 late in a loop equivalent to "for (int i=0; i<36100; i++) 
 doSomething();", my program crashes in seemingly normal code with normal 
 state.  doSomething passes all of its unit tests and passes my nieve 
 code inspection.  I could even be looking in the wrong spot since the 
 code is multithreaded...  (but the other threads are stuck in the 
 equivalent of "while(foo()==false) yield;" while waiting for the other 
 thing to finish.  (foo is a very simple function)

I'm looking for a challenge, if you want you can send me the code (my email is
valid) and I'll see if I can find the bug.  If the code is closed source I'll
even promise not to keep it afterwards, or leak it in any way shape or form.

Regan Heath