msan and gcc ?

[Toon Moene]

On 10/01/2014 08:00 PM, Kostya Serebryany wrote:
> -gcc folks.
>
> Why not use clang then?
> It offers many more nice features.

What's the Fortran front-end called for clang (or do you really think we 
are going to write Weather Forecasting codes in C :-) )

Kind regards,

> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Toon Moene <toon@moene.org> wrote:
>> On 10/01/2014 06:21 PM, VandeVondele Joost wrote:
>>
>>>> it was certainly worth it.
>>>
>>>
>>> since I see msan as a kind of valgrind replacement (similar functionality,
>>> but ~10x the speed, partially at the cost of more difficult deployment), I
>>> did a quick search in gcc bugzilla. 982 PRs mention valgrind, so such
>>> functionality is clearly heavily used.
>>
>>
>> That would be interesting - valgrind is certainly impossible to use on our
>> Weather Forecasting code (far too large, as valgrind helpfully points out).
>>
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