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| author | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2013-06-20 10:01:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2013-07-01 11:14:48 +0200 |
| commit | 16fb77a82988e440fb4a6adad6c5fe7b09512f14 (patch) | |
| tree | b58644441f55205d11ae51a9e1f4e9f3a9957e7f /Porting/pumpkin.pod | |
| parent | 463c96de11efb9662169e0bf06f1faf33464a4cf (diff) | |
| download | perl-16fb77a82988e440fb4a6adad6c5fe7b09512f14.tar.gz | |
Remove the explicit purify/quantify/purecov targets and documentation.
It's not clear whether IBM still sell quantify or purecov. They still seem
to sell purify, but I'm not sure if anyone is using it these days to detect
bugs in perl.
This doesn't prevent anyone from using these tools if they have them, as
it's still possible to run the commands by "hand". But by removing probably
unused code and documentation, the signal to noise ratio improves.
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diff --git a/Porting/pumpkin.pod b/Porting/pumpkin.pod index 89c5a46863..a8c8fb0efd 100644 --- a/Porting/pumpkin.pod +++ b/Porting/pumpkin.pod @@ -651,42 +651,6 @@ things. =back -=head1 Running Purify - -Purify is a commercial tool that is helpful in identifying memory -overruns, wild pointers, memory leaks and other such badness. Perl -must be compiled in a specific way for optimal testing with Purify. - -Use the following commands to test perl with Purify: - - sh Configure -des -Doptimize=-g -Uusemymalloc \ - -Dusemultiplicity -Accflags=-DPURIFY - setenv PURIFYOPTIONS "-chain-length=25" - make all pureperl - cd t - ln -s ../pureperl perl - setenv PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL 2 - ./perl TEST - -Disabling Perl's malloc allows Purify to monitor allocations and leaks -more closely; using Perl's malloc will make Purify report most leaks -in the "potential" leaks category. Enabling the multiplicity option -allows perl to clean up thoroughly when the interpreter shuts down, which -reduces the number of bogus leak reports from Purify. The -DPURIFY -enables any Purify-specific debugging code in the sources. - -Purify outputs messages in "Viewer" windows by default. If you don't have -a windowing environment or if you simply want the Purify output to -unobtrusively go to a log file instead of to the interactive window, -use the following options instead: - - setenv PURIFYOPTIONS "-chain-length=25 -windows=no \ - -log-file=perl.log -append-logfile=yes" - -The only currently known leaks happen when there are compile-time errors -within eval or require. (Fixing these is non-trivial, unfortunately, but -they must be fixed eventually.) - =head1 Common Gotchas =over 4 |