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Expand Up @@ -21,6 +21,14 @@ Further documentation can be found in:
`make -C $DAIKONDIR/java javadoc`
It is also available at <http://plse.cs.washington.edu/daikon/download/api/> .

## Version 5.9.1 (???, 2026)

Fjalar/Kvasir:

* New command-line option `--dyncomp-unhandled-ops=warn` makes DynComp
print a warning and continue, rather than stop, when it encounters a VEX IR
operation that it does not handle.

## Version 5.9.0 (September 1, 2026)

* All Daikon tools now work with Java 8-26.
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Finally, you may specify that no binary operations qualify as
interactions between values. Thus, DynComp only tracks dataflow. (@option{=none})

@item --dyncomp-unhandled-ops=panic
@item --dyncomp-unhandled-ops=warn

By default, if DynComp encounters a Valgrind VEX IR operation that it
does not handle, it prints the name of the operation and stops.
(@option{=panic}) Please report such a failure (@pxref{Reporting problems}).

Alternatively, DynComp can print a warning the first time it encounters
each such operation and continue, approximating the operation: the result
of an operation with one operand is comparable to its operand, and the
operands of an operation with more than one operand are made comparable to
one another. The resulting comparability sets may be larger than
necessary, but are not smaller. (@option{=warn})

@item --dyncomp-approximate-literals

This option applies an approximation for handling literal values which
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