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authorsewardj <sewardj@a5019735-40e9-0310-863c-91ae7b9d1cf9>2005-11-15 20:56:23 +0000
committersewardj <sewardj@a5019735-40e9-0310-863c-91ae7b9d1cf9>2005-11-15 20:56:23 +0000
commit8d9fec59d8b909a42de2ebeca16aeb986a8f0ce1 (patch)
tree717af2e1099339f2fa16cc8759101ea613d3073d /cachegrind
parent710099c168494e3c075a11d846dd3a04232a088b (diff)
Complete documentation trawl for 3.1.0.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5137 a5019735-40e9-0310-863c-91ae7b9d1cf9
Diffstat (limited to 'cachegrind')
-rw-r--r--cachegrind/docs/cg-manual.xml20
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/cachegrind/docs/cg-manual.xml b/cachegrind/docs/cg-manual.xml
index 88b93e80..52f63009 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=&lt;dir&gt;,
+ <para><computeroutput>-I&lt;dir&gt;,
--include=&lt;dir&gt;</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>