Ubuntu
valgrind package

  1. Trusty (14.04)
  2. Bug #1386524
  3. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 1386524

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Problem Description
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Valgrind in Ubuntu 14.04 only has the needed bit to compile. It is not functional and crashes when used.

The Ubuntu 14.04 includes the Valgrind tool using a snap shot of the Valgrind SVN repository from April 11, 2014. The snap shot is the Valgrind 3.9 release and an IBM patch allow the Valgrind tool to compile for PPC64 little endian. However, the needed functional changes did not go into the Valgrind SVN repository until early August 2014. The latest Valgrind release came out in early September 2014.

We request that the next incremental release of Ubuntu 14.04 move to the Valgrind 3.10 release with the full PPC64 little endian support.

---uname output---
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Machine Type = Power 8 LE

Steps to Reproduce
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1) valgrind - to invoke the tool and it crashes

Userspace tool common name: Valgrind
The userspace tool has the following bit modes: 64-bit
Userspace tool obtained from project website: http://valgrind.org/