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Re: valgrind support for glibc master


On Friday 23 June 2017 04:47 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Friday 23 June 2017 04:43 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> valgrind needs to mask out all unknown/unimplemented flags.  And I
>> thought it was 1?  LD_HWCAP_MASK=1 acts as a workaround, after all.
> 
> The remaining flags shouldn't actually matter to glibc since they're
> essentially assumed features (asimd, fp) but there may be programs out
> there that might read them.

To be clear, it's a technicality and not an actual known issue, it is
your (and Mark's) call in the end.  If you want to only enable the known
features then mask = 0x7 should do it I think.

Siddhesh


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