Re: [Boost-users] boost::thread and helgrind

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost::thread and helgrind
From: Frederick Roth (f-roth_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-01-19 03:23:10

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:48:28 +0100, Frederick Roth wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:13:38 -0800 (PST), Vicente Botet wrote:
>> Frederick Roth wrote
>>>
>>> On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:04:46 +0100, Frederick Roth wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:01:01 +0100, Vicente J. Botet Escriba 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Le 04/01/12 09:46, Frederick Roth a écrit :
>>>>>> I am currently fooling around with boost::thread. After writing 
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> short example program (featuring boost::thread and
>>>>>> boost::interprocess::interprocess_semaphore), I ran helgrind 
>>>>>> against
>>>>>> it and got some "Possible data race" errors.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hi, I missed you last post.
>>
>> Anyway, the trace "Possible data race during read of size 4 at 
>> 0x46c6d32c by
>> thread #3" doesn't help me too much. Is there any way helring can 
>> give the
>> c++ variable names?
>
> I got it to show the line-numbers in the boost library (once.hpp and
> once.cpp) i give you the output below. I hope it helps.
>
I did some googling and found the following boost trac entry which 
sounds similar to this.

https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/3526

The last comment states: "although every read of current_thread_tls_key 
happens after its initialization, this ordering is invisible to data 
race detection tools. That's why DRD complains about it. A suppression 
pattern for this access pattern will be added in Valgrind 3.6.0. "

I did compile and test the main.cpp from the trac issue and 
valgrind-3.6.1 still reports the data race. I therefore assume, that the 
suppression pattern did not get into valgrind 3.6.0.

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