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. -- Matthew Emmerton || matt@gsicomp.on.ca GSI Computer Services || http://www.gsicomp.on.ca On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Patrik Sundberg wrote: > hi, > > 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 purify > (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 tool > for a long time and haven't found one I really like yet. > > As it is right now valgrind is x86&linux 2.4 specific (probably gcc specific > 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 instead > of Linux ones. Is anyone already looking in to this or interested? It would be > a great tool to debug the base system with as well as your own applications. > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------. > Patrik Sundberg Address: Rydsvägen 100C, 584 31 Linköping, Sweden | > Email: ps@raditex.se || ps@radiac.mine.nu | > Phone: +46 13 178567 || +46 707 602240 | > .---> Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering student | > |-----> Master of Science in Business Administration and Economics student | > |-------> UNIX/Programming consultant | > `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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