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Diffstat (limited to 'Misc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/ACKS | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/PURIFY.README | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/README.klocwork | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/RPM/python-2.6.spec (renamed from Misc/RPM/python-2.5.spec) | 6 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | Misc/build.sh | 2 |
5 files changed, 27 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -412,6 +412,7 @@ Greg McFarlane Michael McLay Gordon McMillan Jay T. Miller +Chris McDonough Andrew McNamara Caolan McNamara Craig McPheeters diff --git a/Misc/PURIFY.README b/Misc/PURIFY.README index a714332..1e5d2ac 100644 --- a/Misc/PURIFY.README +++ b/Misc/PURIFY.README @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Purify (tm) and Quantify (tm) are commercial software quality -assurance tools available from Rational Software Corporation -<http://www.rational.com/>. Purify is essentially a memory access +assurance tools available from IBM <http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/>. +Purify is essentially a memory access verifier and leak detector; Quantify is a C level profiler. The rest of this file assumes you generally know how to use Purify and Quantify, and that you have installed valid licenses for these @@ -20,6 +20,17 @@ Quantify'd interpreter, do this: make PURIFY=quantify +Starting with Python 2.3, pymalloc is enabled by default. This +will cause many supurious warnings. Modify Objects/obmalloc.c +and enable Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER by uncommenting it. +README.valgrind has more details about why this is necessary. +See below about setting up suppressions. Some tests may not +run well with Purify due to heavy memory or CPU usage. These +tests may include: test_largefile, test_import, and test_long. + +Please report any findings (problems or no warnings) to python-dev@python.org. +It may be useful to submit a bug report for any problems. + When running the regression test (make test), I have found it useful to set my PURIFYOPTIONS environment variable using the following (bash) shell function. Check out the Purify documentation for @@ -52,6 +63,11 @@ following in your .purify file: suppress umr ...; "nismodule.c" suppress umr ...; "pwdmodule.c" +Note: this list is very old and may not be accurate any longer. +It's possible some of these no longer need to be suppressed. +You will also need to suppress warnings (at least umr) +from Py_ADDRESS_IN_RANGE. + This will still leave you with just a few UMR, mostly in the readline library, which you can safely ignore. A lot of work has gone into Python 1.5 to plug as many leaks as possible. diff --git a/Misc/README.klocwork b/Misc/README.klocwork index a22715e..6d2f57f 100644 --- a/Misc/README.klocwork +++ b/Misc/README.klocwork @@ -23,4 +23,8 @@ in addition to any analysis. False positives were also annotated so that the comments can be reviewed and reversed if the analysis was incorrect. +A second run was performed on 10-Aug-2006. The tool was tuned to remove +some false positives and perform some additional checks. ~150 new +warnings were produced, primarily related to dereferencing NULL pointers. + Contact python-dev@python.org for more information. diff --git a/Misc/RPM/python-2.5.spec b/Misc/RPM/python-2.6.spec index afbb09e..73eba56 100644 --- a/Misc/RPM/python-2.5.spec +++ b/Misc/RPM/python-2.6.spec @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # "python2"? #WARNING: Commenting out doesn't work. Last line is what's used. %define config_binsuffix none -%define config_binsuffix 2.5 +%define config_binsuffix 2.6 # Build tkinter? "auto" enables it if /usr/bin/wish exists. #WARNING: Commenting out doesn't work. Last line is what's used. @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ ################################# %define name python -%define version 2.5b3 -%define libvers 2.5 +%define version 2.6a1 +%define libvers 2.6 %define release 1pydotorg %define __prefix /usr diff --git a/Misc/build.sh b/Misc/build.sh index ff46bba..d5079ca 100755 --- a/Misc/build.sh +++ b/Misc/build.sh @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ RSYNC_OPTS="-aC -e ssh" PYTHON=$INSTALL_DIR/bin/python # Python options and regression test program that should always be run. -REGRTEST_ARGS="-E -tt $INSTALL_DIR/lib/python2.5/test/regrtest.py" +REGRTEST_ARGS="-E -tt $INSTALL_DIR/lib/python2.6/test/regrtest.py" REFLOG="build/reflog.txt.out" # These tests are not stable and falsely report leaks sometimes. |