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diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2023-07-2023-09/valgrind.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-07-2023-09/valgrind.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2433adc4de --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-07-2023-09/valgrind.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +=== Valgrind: valgrind-devel updated for FreeBSD 15 + +Links: + +link:https://www.valgrind.org/[Valgrind Home Page] URL: link:https://www.valgrind.org/[] + +link:https://www.valgrind.org/docs/manual/dist.news.html[Valgrind News] URL: link:https://www.valgrind.org/docs/manual/dist.news.html[] + +Contact: Paul Floyd <pjfloyd@wanadoo.fr> + +package:devel/valgrind-devel[] is in the process of being updated. +This contains most of what will be in the official release of Valgrind 3.22 due out in October. + +`memcheck` has been enhanced with some more checks. +It will now report usage of `realloc` with a size of zero. +Such usage is not portable and is deprecated (C23 will make it Undefined Behaviour). +`memcheck` now validates the values used for alignment and sized delete for `memalign`, `posix_memalign`, `aligned_alloc` and all aligned and sized overloads of `operator new` and `operator delete`. +Reading `DWARF` debuginfo is now done in a lazy manner which can improve performance. + +As usual there are numerous small bugfixes. + +Specific to FreeBSD there is now support for FreeBSD 15. +Two extra `_umtx_op` operations are now supported, `UMTX_OP_GET_MIN_TIMEOUT` and `UMTX_OP_SET_MIN_TIMEOUT`. +There is a fix for the use of sysctl kern proc pathname with the guest pid or -1, which previously returned the path of the Valgrind host. +The sysctl will now return the path of the guest. +Support for the `close_range` system call has been added. |