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 28.5.03
Calltree Skin V 0.9.1
Bug fix release. 
- Fixed a packaging mistake. I should have used "make distcheck" earlier ;-) 
 - Runs with Valgrind V 1.9.6. Because of a skin API change, calltree previously did compile with V 1.9.6, but didn't run. 
 - Fixed failed assertion with --trace-jump=yes: Jumps can happen between different functions with long_jmp/C++ exceptions. 
  
  24.5.03
Calltree Skin V 0.9.0
- Compiles both with Valgrind 1.9.6 and current Valgrind CVS. 
 - Compile fixes for GCC 3.3. 
 - Added option --dump-instr=yes to include trace information on instruction level. This needs a new version of KCachegrind to be useful. Stay tuned! 
 - Added option --trace-jump=yes to include trace information for (conditional) jumps inside of a function. 
  
  16.4.03
Calltree Skin V 0.2.95.
- Fixed a dumb configure error of 0.2.94. Added some HTML documation. 
  
  15.4.03
Calltree Skin V 0.2.94.
- Some speedups and small bug fixes. Compiles with V 1.9.5. 
  
  5.4.03
KCachegrind 0.3b
- Real cost types are drawn in different colors in the graphic cost bars now. This is especially useful to see the partitioning of real costs in a virtual type. 
 - Cost type bars are shown in the treemaps. 
 - The flat profile shows call counts now. This allows for call count order. 
 - Cycle detection is switchable with a toolbar button. For GUI application, sometimes it's useful to switch cycle detection off, even if there are some visualization errors with recursive calls. 
 - New toolbar button to show "expanded" percentage costs. If this switch is off, all costs are shown relative to the total application cost (in call lists/source view). If switched on, the costs are relative to the function cost, thus "expanded". 
 - The treemap now shows a black hash pattern on areas where sub items are to small to draw. 
Lot of optimisations allover. 
  
Calltree Skin 0.2.93 for Valgrind 1.9.4 
 
- Reordered event type order for better visualisation with KCachegrind 0.3b
 - Small bug fixes
  
  2.4.03
Calltree Skin 0.2.92 for Valgrind 1.9.4
- All bugs with multithreaded apps should be fixed now. Missing for version 0.99: Regression tests, docu, and performance :-) 
  
  31.3.03
Calltree Skin 0.2.91 for Valgrind 1.9.4
- Bugs with --fn-skip=xxx are fixed. For multithreaded apps, it only works with --dump-threads=yes for now. 
  
  17.3.03
Calltree Skin 0.2.90 for Valgrind 1.9.4
- This is the 2nd prerelease for the calltree rewrite. Warning: Bugs with multithreaded apps still not fixed! A lot of new command line options, and UserRequests. 
  
  27.2.03
Calltree Skin 0.2d for Valgrind 1.9.x
- Bug fix: Use 64 bit for cycle cost 
  
Calltree Skin 0.3pre for Valgrind 1.9.x
 
- This is a prerelease of a rewritten calltree skin. Warning: Multithreading is buggy! 
  
  6.2.03
KCachegrind 0.3a
- This is a bugfix release. It's compiling both with KDE 3.0.x and KDE 3.1.x libraries. 
 - Compile fixes for KDE 3.0.x. Tested. 
 - Fix for loading of traces from other directories. 
 - Fix to always select a trace type. 
  
  27.1.03
Calltree Skin 0.2c for Valgrind 1.9.x
- A simple port of 0.2b to a independent skin (plugin) for Valgrind 1.9.x. 
 - No patching of valgrind sources required; a binary Valgrind installation is enough. 
  
  29.11.02
KCachegrind 0.3
- Compiles with KDE 3.0.5. 
 - Recursive handling corrected: Cycle detection and handling. 
 - Internal cleanup: Cost types aren't hardcoded any more (config missing) 
 - Treemap widget: New Split Types (Recursive bisection, Columns, Rows) for more rectangular areas when there are many subitems. 
  
  15.10.02
Calltree Patch 0.2b for Valgrind 1.0.4
- Adjustments for Valgrind 1.0.4. Note: Valgrind 1.0.4 has a serious bugfix for debug info generated with GCC 3.x. This bugfix is very important the see the real function names in KCachegrind instead of 0x80xxxxxx. 
 - No compile warnings with GCC 3.x any more 
 - Now the "trigger:" line has the exact reason for a trace dump 
  
  24.9.02
KCachegrind 0.2a
- Compile fix for GCC 3.x and KDE 3.0.x 
 - Optional TreeMap shading added (for even nicer screenshots!) 
 - Minor GUI string fixes 
  
  23.9.02
KCachegrind 0.2
- Terminology similar to GProf. 
 - Lot of What's this help added for all widgets in KCachegrind. 
 - Added to Info tab: 'List of loaded parts' with function info per trace part. This also allows hiding parts to get e.g. only Thread1 profile parts for a multithreaded application. 
Graph rectangles are now optionally titled by name and cost, if available space allows this (see Screenshots!) 
 - Many visualisation options added for the TreeMap widget, all available by a context menu. Most important: A mode to get real cost size proportions ('Skip incorrect border')! 
 - Much improved automatic saving/loading of configuration and current program state options. Most options are stored on a profiled-command-basis. Quitting KCachegrind and starting it again with a trace of the same profiled program, gives you the same window layout and preselected funtion/group. 
 - Toolbar buttons for Reload Trace/Force Cachegrind Dump added for some interactive control of a running profile from the GUI. 
 - More distance information in the Coverage Tab. 
 - And much more... 
  
  14.9.02
Calltree Patch 0.2a for Valgrind 1.0.2
- Improved multi-thread support. There's much less slowdown for single threaded programs while allowing multi-threading. 
 - Option "--dump-threads=no|yes" added. Allows separate trace file generation per thread in multi-threaded programs. Default is one trace file for costs of all threads. 
 - Added documentation in README.calltree: All about usage, additional options, trace format extension, changelog, some benchmark results, and technical details on the patch. 
  
  11.9.02
KCachegrind 0.1d, Changes:
- Update fix for Source 
 - New config option: L1/L2 factor for CPU cycle estimation 
 - New config option: Drawing Mode for Graphs 
 - Able to load thread trace parts (produced by Calltree Patch 0.2 with multithreaded programs). 
  
Calltree Patch 0.2 for Valgrind 1.0.2
 
- Version 0.2 supports multi-threaded programs now. Unfortunately there's some overhead (10%) even for single-threaded programs at the moment, and the version is possible not very stable. So use 0.1e if you don't need it. For thread traces, the filename has appended "-tid" for costs in thread tid. 
  
  10.9.02
Calltree Patch 0.1e for Valgrind 1.0.2
- Bugfix for Segfault with indirect jumps in client code 
 - Bugfix for correct dumping of inlined functions 
  
  9.9.02
Calltree Patch 0.1d for Valgrind 1.0.2
- Option --calltree=no to disable call-tracing. Needed to disable call-tree tracing for multithreaded programs, as that's not working at the moment. You get the original cachegrind behaviour (aside from compressed output). 
 - Option --compress-strings=no to disable string compression in trace dumps. This produces more human readable trace output. 
 - Atomic generation of trace part files. This is done by dumping to ".file" and renaming to "file" afterwards. 
  
  6.9.02
KCachegrind 0.1c, Changes:
- Should finally compile with KDE 3.0.x 
 - Some Docu fix (at least no more errors) 
  
Calltree Patch 0.1c for Valgrind 1.0.1
 
- Failed assertions fixed (unmapping/CC type check) 
 - vg_annotate can now load the traces 
  
  4.9.02
KCachegrind 0.1b, Changes:
- New calculated event type: CPU Cycle Estimation, selected on startup. 
 - Distance column in Coverage lists: shows minimal stack frame distance to selected function. 
 - Should compile with GCC 3.x now 
 - Should compile with KDE 3.0.x now (Ships KWidgetAction) 
 - Small GUI fixes 
 - Searches recursively for source files now 
 - Some usefull tips of the day added 
 - German message translation 
 - Reads trace files produced by original Cachegrind and Cachgrind with Calltree patch 0.1b (No previous Calltree patches supported !). 
  
Calltree Patch 0.1b for Valgrind 1.0.1
 
- Hopefully no malformed patch... 
 - Option --cachedumps= renamed to --dumps= 
 - Option --dumpat=function added to dump at function entry 
 - Immediate dump forcable with "touch cachegrind.cmd" in cwd of a running cachegrind (the program must be running, not sleep!) 
 - Creates traces with names 'cachegrind.out.pid.part' 
 - Writes compressed traces (70% smaller than original cachegrind) 
  
  30.8.02
Small fixes for braindead errors of first publication.
  28.8.02
Initial unofficial publication of KCachegrind under GPL.
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