Re: Performer purify tests

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From: Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Date: 01/22/2001 08:16:25

We would also like purify to support this. Unfortunately our influence
is limited.

Cheers,Angus.

"Dorosky, Christopher G" wrote:
>
> I saw the same problems. I think it stems from purify not understanding
> shared memory. I turned all those warnings off, and was able to run, but
> right now purify is a useless tool for memory leaks in performer apps
> because of the above problem.
>
> Christopher Dorosky
> Lead Electronic Systems Engineer - Real Time Simulation
> Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control - Dallas
> christopher.g.dorosky++at++lmco.com
> 972-603-2349
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: yoram [mailto:yoram++at++dreamteam-ltd.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 9:22 AM
> To: performer list
> Subject: Performer purify tests
>
> pfHi,
>
> I have tried running memory tests with Purify on our performer
> application.
> Even running a simple application with very little data causes purify to
> complain about thousands of memory problems - specially around pfWindow
> and pfProcess.
> Even running tests on the example in /usr/share/Performer.../simple
> causes an enourmous amount of problems.
>
> Are these things known?
> Is Performer very unclean ( in Purify standards ) ?
> Could it be that it is all our fault of bad usage ?
> If so, does 'simple' abuse Performer as well ?
>
> regards and thanx
>
> :o)
>
> Yoram Shahak
> Dreamteam-ltd.
>
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