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Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:16:43 +0200
From: Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@...ia.fr>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: valgrind problems

Am Sonntag, den 16.06.2013, 13:39 +0200 schrieb Szabolcs Nagy:
> note that valgrind cannot emulate 80bit long double arithmetics
> (uses 64bit arithmetics instead) which breaks floating-point
> printf and strtod functions in musl (and most math code on x86
> take slightly different code paths, some break badly)
> 
> so valgrind has issues with floating-point code and there were
> limitations with threading as well

Hm, valgrind seems to be *the* tool that is used everywhere. And on
glibc platforms it gives valuable insight and finds a lot of bugs. As
a naïve user of musl I would just expect it to work.

Jens

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