| Through a command-line
interface, Intel Thread Checker 3.1 for Linux helps you correctly thread
your application. It mitigates the risk of adding threads and can provide
hands-on learning. You can use it to quickly find design issues during
early development stages as well as integrate it into your test system to
keep bugs out. |
| Patented advanced
error detection engine: |
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Finds hidden potential errors, such as
deadlocks and data races, mapping them to the memory reference and to the
source-code line. |
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Identifies six levels of threading
issues, from errors and warnings to informative comments. |
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Displays all necessary warnings for
effective threaded application diagnosis. |
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Lets you track a potential error to a
variable in a line of source code on Intel® compiler-built applications
that are compiled for source instrumentation. |
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Allows you to use standard debug
builds, without recompiling the entire source base. |
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As seen in Figure 1, Intel Thread Checker for Linux finds all the
potential, and likely to occur, threading errors such as data race and
deadlock conditions and shows where source code changes are required to
achieve correct threading. Intel Thread Checker helps make your
applications multi-core ready.
Click to
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Changes for Correct Threading |
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As changes to the source code are implemented, Intel Thread Checker can
be rerun to track changes that result in less potential threading errors.
In Figure 2, a source code fix resulted in less threading errors, which
are more important to application correctness than warning or information
statements.
Click to
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Figure 2. Intel® Thread Checker Fixes Code for
Application Correctness |
| Native Linux
support: |
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Work in your native Linux environment,
without a remote Windows-based system. |
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Familiar command-line interface. |
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Easy integration into batch scripts
for use in nightly regression test runs. |
| Support for the
latest multi-core processors: |
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Provide a competitive advantage on the
latest multi-core processors by using threading analysis tools that help
you get error-free threaded software to market quickly. |
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Prepare for the large number of
execution cores in future processors with a high-quality threaded code
base. |
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Intel® 64 architecture support: |
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Implement instrumentation flexibly at different points in the
development life cycle with source and binary instrumentation of 64-bit
and 32-bit applications on processors with Intel 64 architecture.
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Support both 64-bit and 32-bit
platforms with identical functionality and user experience for the
developer. A common environment for both platforms improves development
efficiency. |
| Command line
interface: |
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Integrate Intel Thread Checker into
your testing environment easily with a scriptable interface. |
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Automate testing in batch modes,
reducing manual implementation and improving efficiency. |
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Simplify the implementation of daily
regressions, improving development efficiency. |
| Selective
instrumentation: |
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Reduce instrumentation time through
selective instrumentation of DLLs. |
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Instrument linked libraries are based
on the interpretation of the library's impact on performance, directing
tuning effort to where it helps performance most. |
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