From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 22:23:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 604FD16A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 22:23:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EABC43D1D for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 22:23:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from berhart@erhartgroup.com) Received: from cocaine.erhartgroup.com (c-67-166-0-138.client.comcast.net[67.166.0.138]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with SMTP id <20040410052321012001ur3pe>; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 05:23:21 +0000 Message-Id: <6.0.2.0.2.20040409232219.01c8eec0@mx1.erhartgroup.com> X-Sender: berhart%erhartgroup.com@mx1.erhartgroup.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.2.0 Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 23:23:23 -0600 To: Lev Walkin From: Brandon Erhart In-Reply-To: <40778354.50407@netli.com> References: <6.0.2.0.2.20040409230629.01cc1ec0@mx1.erhartgroup.com> <40778354.50407@netli.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Debugging? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 05:23:22 -0000 Thank you. You are my new god. I had checked out a version of valgrind for BSD (one of the patches) and it failed to compile. Everything seems to be working, except I get this warning at the beginning of the program: "Warning: ignoring --pointercheck=yes, because i386_set_ldt failed (errno=45)" Any ideas? Brandon At 11:17 PM 4/9/2004, you wrote: >Brandon Erhart wrote: >>For Linux, I've seen valgrind (probably one of the best) as well as >>several others. In the commercial arena, Rational's PURIFY and Parasoft's >>INSURE++ work on every OS *but* BSD. Any particular reason for this? >>Are there any debuggers out there for BSD that will detect the heap/stack >>corruption!? > >Valgrind is available for FreeBSD. > >http://eirikn.kerneled.com/valgrind/ > >-- >Lev Walkin >vlm@netli.com >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"