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authorB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2022-03-04 12:33:47 -0500
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2022-03-07 08:45:21 +0700
commitcf2e849b669332ef932ddc3ad0a75f9d742dc14c (patch)
tree5299073511a9e6c44bd5f99fb4d89cd458fb8996 /development/valgrind
parentee01967bd9709f28bf411ecf0735668b802d8432 (diff)
development/valgrind: Mention mpich/openmpi optional deps.
Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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@@ -11,3 +11,9 @@ three experimental tools: a heap/stack/global array overrun detector,
a different kind of heap profiler, and a SimPoint basic block vector
generator. It runs on the following platforms: x86/Linux, AMD64/Linux,
PPC32/Linux, PPC64/Linux, ARM/Linux, x86/MacOSX and AMD64/MacOSX.
+
+Optional dependency: either mpich or openmpi. If one of these is
+found, valgrind will include the MPI wrapper, which allows using
+valgrind with software that uses the MPI message passing standard.
+Note that only one of mpich or openmpi should be installed, as they
+conflict with each other.