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[Mark Adams]

Thanks Sean, will probably have to go there some day ... valgrind seems to
be slow about updating for new OSX's and v10.10 is not yet done.
Mark

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Sean Farley <sean.michael.farley at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Emil Constantinescu writes:
>
> > On 11/11/14 11:33 AM, Mark Adams wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov
> >> <mailto:balay at mcs.anl.gov>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Mark Adams wrote:
> >>
> >>     > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov
> <mailto:balay at mcs.anl.gov>> wrote:
> >>     >
> >>     > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Mark Adams wrote:
> >>     > >
> >>     > > > BTW, valgrind works on my Mac now after switching to
> HomeBrew.  v10.9.5.
> >
> >
> > I've been using it via Mac Ports with v10.9.5. It started working maybe
> > a couple of months ago. I used the defaults, no special compiler
> settings.
>
> That's probably with Mavericks and earlier. Historically, it's been
> extremely difficult to get valgrind to work on a mac. On top of that,
> valgrind's "support" for the mac is basically just silencing errors and
> working around issues that is up to Apple to fix.
>
> Honestly, you'll probably get better results through using the Apple
> provided Instruments:
>
>
> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/InstrumentsUserGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html
>
> It is less convenient to run than a command line tool but is more
> supported. Pick your poison.
>
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