Re: Purify + pfInit
Anita Kishore (kishore++at++triavest.com)
Mon, 14 Jul 1997 12:10:18 -0700
On Jul 14, 11:46am, Amaury Aubel wrote:
> Subject: Purify + pfInit
> Hi,
>
>
> I'm trying to run purify on Performer applications. I started with a fairly
> simple Performer one: the sample code "simple.c" shipped with Performer.
> I run it on a single-processor machine in APPCULLDRAW mode. I also translated
> calls to amalloc, afree, arealloc to their Unix counterparts
> malloc,free,realloc.
>
> However, in my Purify window it looks like it never goes farther than the
call
> to pfInit. Could the fork performed by pfInit account for this? No matter
what
> option flags I specify (-follow-child-processes=yes for example) it seems to
> loop endlessly on pfInit (cpu usage is about 100% then)... I've written aside
a
> test program which forks a process and Purify behaved normally on that one.
>
> I have read some posts in the archives from people who had *some* success
with
> purify/Performer. Could they share their experience?
>
I have used Purify with Pf in multi process mode on RE2 (multi-processor)
which is fine, but on a single processor machine like Indigo2 I have the same
problem. I do not get purify windows for each process of Pf like I do on RE2.
-anita
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Anita Kishore
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