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Date:      Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:00:14 -0500 (EST)
From:      Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To:        Patrik Sundberg <ps@radiac.mine.nu>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: valgrind
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0202271056400.45612-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20020227151310.GA47084@raquel.radiac.mine.nu>

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I'm working on porting this right now.

Be forewarned, though, that the FreeBSD hacks for this tool will
*never* be allowed into the main distro.  Why?  Licence.  Valgrind
includes some code from the Linux kernel and libc.  When we hack it for
FreeBSD, we'll end up putting some BSD-licenced code into a GPL
product.  Obviously, this will cause problems.

Afaik, the patches can remain part of the ports tree without problems.

--=20
Matthew Emmerton      || matt@gsicomp.on.ca
GSI Computer Services || http://www.gsicomp.on.ca

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Patrik Sundberg wrote:

> hi,
>=20
> I found this tool called valgrind (http://devel-home.kde.org/~sewardj/) a=
 few
> days ago and find it really interesting. It is something similair to puri=
fy
> (memory use debugger one could call it I guess) but GPL'ed and developed =
by
> the KDE team from what I can tell. I have been looking for this kind of t=
ool
> for a long time and haven't found one I really like yet.
>=20
> As it is right now valgrind is x86&linux 2.4 specific (probably gcc speci=
fic
> too..) but I would really love to see a FreeBSD port. It should be quite
> possible to port the OS specific parts to handle FreeBSD systemcalls inst=
ead
> of Linux ones. Is anyone already looking in to this or interested? It wou=
ld be
> a great tool to debug the base system with as well as your own applicatio=
ns.
>=20
> --=20
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