From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 18 11:50:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC3E16A418 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:50:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0498713C46A for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:50:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id C847D2085; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:50:36 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: -0.3/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on tim.des.no Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADA662084; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:50:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8C1EB8447F; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:50:36 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: "Heiko Wundram \(Beenic\)" References: <47B1F8B7.7030803@delphij.net> <20080216235001.GA80694@sub.vaned.net> <20080218085323.GA1439@roadrunner.spoerlein.net> <200802181010.44055.wundram@beenic.net> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:50:36 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200802181010.44055.wundram@beenic.net> (Heiko Wundram's message of "Mon\, 18 Feb 2008 10\:10\:43 +0100") Message-ID: <86d4qu7ab7.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Christian S.J. Peron" Subject: Re: valgrind or workalike on FreeBSD/amd64 7.0/8.0? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:50:43 -0000 "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" writes: > Ulrich Spoerlein writes: > > When will mere mortals like us get a chance to play with it? I found > > valgrind _very_ useful back in the 5.x and 6.x days. > I just wanted to say that I'd also be very interested in testing it > out (if you need testers for it), because currently I always (have to > try to) compile applications I want to memcheck (which is my main > reason for using valgrind) on Linux, which is a slight PITA. > > I'd be running it on i386, anyway. The ports version is a little outdated, but it works fine on i386. What peter@ and phk@ are doing in p4 is to port a newer version to FreeBSD and add amd64 support. Hopefully, the upstream vendor will adopt those patches so it doesn't have to be done over for every major valgrind release. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no