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| author | sewardj <sewardj@a5019735-40e9-0310-863c-91ae7b9d1cf9> | 2005-11-15 20:56:23 +0000 |
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| committer | sewardj <sewardj@a5019735-40e9-0310-863c-91ae7b9d1cf9> | 2005-11-15 20:56:23 +0000 |
| commit | 8d9fec59d8b909a42de2ebeca16aeb986a8f0ce1 (patch) | |
| tree | 717af2e1099339f2fa16cc8759101ea613d3073d /cachegrind/docs/cg-manual.xml | |
| parent | 710099c168494e3c075a11d846dd3a04232a088b (diff) | |
| download | valgrind-8d9fec59d8b909a42de2ebeca16aeb986a8f0ce1.tar.gz | |
Complete documentation trawl for 3.1.0.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5137 a5019735-40e9-0310-863c-91ae7b9d1cf9
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diff --git a/cachegrind/docs/cg-manual.xml b/cachegrind/docs/cg-manual.xml index 88b93e807..52f630098 100644 --- a/cachegrind/docs/cg-manual.xml +++ b/cachegrind/docs/cg-manual.xml @@ -288,9 +288,9 @@ file:</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> -<para>Note that older versions of Cachegrind used a log file -named <computeroutput>cachegrind.out</computeroutput> (i.e. no -<computeroutput>.pid</computeroutput> suffix). The suffix serves +<para>The <computeroutput>.pid</computeroutput> suffix +on the output file name +serves two purposes. Firstly, it means you don't have to rename old log files that you don't want to overwrite. Secondly, and more importantly, it allows correct profiling with the @@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ for distinguishing between an event which cannot happen, and one which can but did not.</para> <para>Sometimes only a small section of a source file is -executed. To minimise uninteresting output, Valgrind only shows +executed. To minimise uninteresting output, Cachegrind only shows annotated lines and lines within a small distance of annotated lines. Gaps are marked with the line numbers so you know which part of a file the shown code comes from, eg:</para> @@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ way as for C/C++ programs.</para> </listitem> <listitem id="include"> - <para><computeroutput>-I=<dir>, + <para><computeroutput>-I<dir>, --include=<dir></computeroutput> [default: empty string]</para> <para>Adds a directory to the list in which to search for @@ -955,13 +955,13 @@ shortcomings:</para> </listitem> <listitem> - <para>Valgrind's custom threads implementation will schedule - threads differently to the standard one. This could warp the - results for threaded programs.</para> + <para>Valgrind will schedule + threads differently from how they would be when running natively. + This could warp the results for threaded programs.</para> </listitem> <listitem> - <para>The instructions <computeroutput>bts</computeroutput>, + <para>The x86/amd64 instructions <computeroutput>bts</computeroutput>, <computeroutput>btr</computeroutput> and <computeroutput>btc</computeroutput> will incorrectly be counted as doing a data read if both the arguments are @@ -973,7 +973,7 @@ shortcomings:</para> </listitem> <listitem> - <para>FPU instructions with data sizes of 28 and 108 bytes + <para>x86/amd64 FPU instructions with data sizes of 28 and 108 bytes (e.g. <computeroutput>fsave</computeroutput>) are treated as though they only access 16 bytes. These instructions seem to be rare so hopefully this won't affect accuracy much.</para> |