Archive for April 2019

Valgrind 3.15.0 with improved DHAT heap profiler

Posted on April 17, 2019, 23:00.

Julian Seward released valgrind 3.15.0 which updates support for existing platforms and adds a major overhaul of the DHAT heap profiler.  There are, as ever, many refinements and bug fixes.  The release notes give more details. Nicholas Nethercote used the old experimental DHAT tool a lot while profiling the Rust compiler and then decided to […]

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Building GDB from GIT

Posted on April 2, 2019, 22:13.

Since the GNU Toolchain has many shared modules it sometimes feels like you have to rebuild everything (assembler, linker, binutils tools, debugger, simulators, etc.) just to get one of the latest tools from source. Having all this reusable shared code is fun, but it does make build times a bit long. Luckily most of the […]

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