ports/86007: devel/valgrind won't work on 6.x but does on 5.x

Ulrich Spoerlein q at galgenberg.net
Mon Sep 12 08:20:14 UTC 2005


>Number:         86007
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       devel/valgrind won't work on 6.x but does on 5.x
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 12 08:20:12 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ulrich Spoerlein
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Synopsis says it all. Something changed in 6.x which makes valgrind fail,
which is rather sad, since it is such a cool tool.
>How-To-Repeat:
Just install devel/valgrind and run something like ls(1)

% valgrind ls
==1629== Memcheck, a memory error detector for x86-linux.
==1629== Copyright (C) 2002-2004, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward.
==1629== Using valgrind-2.1.0, a program supervision framework for x86-linux.
==1629== Copyright (C) 2000-2004, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward.
==1629== Estimated CPU clock rate is 601 MHz
==1629== For more details, rerun with: -v
==1629== 

valgrind: the `impossible' happened:
   Unhandled sysarch call
Basic block ctr is approximately 0
==1629==    at 0xB802BE91: (within /usr/local/lib/valgrind/stage2)
==1629==    by 0xB802BE90: (within /usr/local/lib/valgrind/stage2)
==1629==    by 0xB802BEA8: vgPlain_core_panic (in /usr/local/lib/valgrind/stage2)
==1629==    by 0xB80341A1: (within /usr/local/lib/valgrind/stage2)

sched status:

Thread 1: status = Runnable, associated_mx = 0x0, associated_cv = 0x0
==1629==    at 0x3C00FD3F: (within /libexec/ld-elf.so.1)
==1629==    by 0x3C0048F9: allocate_initial_tls (in /libexec/ld-elf.so.1)
==1629==    by 0x3C007165: _rtld (in /libexec/ld-elf.so.1)
==1629==    by 0x3C0043CD: (within /libexec/ld-elf.so.1)


>Fix:

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