RE: [Valgrind-users] Rational Purify

[Foster, G. <gar...@si...>]

Hello Robert, Nicholas,

Thank you both for your replies. I'll try and collate the information from
both and ask some further questions.

> Should be doable.  Someone just needs to find the time.  Since I don't
> think any of the current developers uses an IDE like Anjuta or Eclipse,
> I suspect it will be a low priority RFE.

I didn't mean to imply that any of the Valgrind developers would have time
for this, rather that I would try to drum up some interest in the idea in
the Gnome/GTK+ community, and more specifically in the Anjuta team.

> What do you mean by "similar setup"?  Do you just want to 
> invoke Valgrind 
> conveniently from within the IDE, or are you thinking of some 
> kind of GUI?
> 

I was just thinking of the sort of integration into Anjuta that you see
between Purify and VC++. What it does is embed itself in the IDE, so you can
invoke it conveniently like you said, but it goes a little further than that
perhaps implies, for example warnings pop up as you debug, and there is a
general report of problems and issues at the end of a debugging run, all of
this integrated into the IDE UI. So its sort of both of the above, only that
the IDE is the GUI, hopefully that makes sense.

> I believe KDevelop has a Valgrind plug-in, but I don't know 
> how it works.
> 

I am sure that would be worth investigating.

So, knowing that people have managed a similar effort in integration into an
IDE, and knowing the level of integration I thought would be nice (i.e that
level I described when discussing Purify), how does the following statement
impact on the idea in general? 

> No - Valgrind isn't really used like that.  Since it's a virtual
> machine, it takes over execution of the process entirely.  Valgrind used
> to be implemented as a shared library that got injected before your main
> program, but that caused too many problems and we changed over to a
> complete virtual machine instead.


Thanks again for information already supplied, and thanks in advance for any
further information, it is much appreciated,

Regards,

Gaz