[Issue 12183] using std.algorithm.sort makes valgrind abort

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Sat Jun 7 04:49:00 PDT 2014


https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12183

yebblies <yebblies at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from yebblies <yebblies at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Mathias LANG from comment #0)
> Valgrind currently doesn't support 80-bits x87 operation, and is unlikely to
> do so
> (http://www.valgrind.org/docs/manual/manual-core.html#manual-core.limits).
> So everytime it'll encounter one, it'll choke on it and abort.

This is actually wrong, valgrind does support those instructions it just
doesn't run them at full 80-bit precision.  The aborts are caused by obscure
forms of the instructions that have not been implemented.  Chances are the
workaround can now be removed.

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