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------- Comment From Andreas.Krebbel at de.ibm.com 2018-11-28 11:11 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #8)
> In v3.15.0 in master I see following s390x bugfixes staged:
>
> 400490  s390x: VRs allocated as if separate from FPRs
> 400491  s390x: Operand of LOCH treated as unsigned integer
> 397187  z13 vector register support for vgdb gdbserver
> 401277  More bugs in z13 support
>
> However, https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385411 is not in yet? Or is
> the NEWS out of date?

Correct. The vector floating point support is not upstream yet. But the
patch has already been reviewed by Julian and will be committed any time
soon.

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Title:
  [19.04 FEAT] Valgrind z13 support

Status in Ubuntu on IBM z Systems:
  Confirmed
Status in valgrind package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Function:
  Provide support for the instructions introduced with IBM z13, e.g. SIMD in the Valgrind debugging infrastructure.

  
  Available with valgrind 3.14.0 + 2 patch2

  Addl. 
  - floating point vector support (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385411) 
  - gdb server intergration support (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397187).
  need to be applied , which is upstream committed for 3.15
  completing this item

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