Ted Purcell (tpurcell++at++PureAtria.COM)
Fri, 13 Dec 1996 08:02:10 -0800 (PST)
I recently received your email regarding Purify and its abilities to detect
errors in "real-time" applications (not run-time, which Purify detects). I
am very curious as to what error messages that you were receiving from
Purify on the mentioned app. Please forward this information to me so that I
may provide you with the proper answer to your problems.
We have recently upgraded Purify/ PureCoverage to versions 4.0 respectively,
which may have alleviated the problems. Were you using this version or a
later version of the tool?
We are dedicated to providing high quality software development tools to our
customers and if you can help us in accomplishing this goal, with any new
information, we would be greatly appreciative!
Have a great day and thank you very much in advance for your valuable time
in this matter.
To: info-performer++at++sgi.com
From: "Michael M. Allbright" <m-allbright1++at++ti.com>
Subject: Real-Time Debugging of Performer Apps
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 13:43:28 -0800
Reply-To: "Michael M. Allbright" <m-allbright1++at++ti.com>
Has anyone had any success with real time debugging applications such as
Purify, Insure++, etc. in debugging Performer applications.
I have spent some time debugging with Purify, to no avail. In order to perform
the tests, I locked down to one processor and created a wrapper to translate
amalloc and afree calls to malloc and free respectively (amalloc and afree are
called by pfMalloc and pfFree). Nevertheless, Purify spat out thousands of
errors messages which, on inspection, appeared to be in error themselves.
I just got an evaluation copy of Insure++, but I wanted to see if anybody out
there had any experience with this before I invest further time.
Thanks
--Mike
Ted Purcell Jr. "Improving Software
Corporate Sales Quality Everywhere!"
Ph. (408) 524-3207 Pure Atria Corporation
Fx. (408) 720-9200 1309 S. Mary Avenue
tpurcell++at++pureatria.com Sunnyvale, CA. 94087
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