[Valgrind-users] RE: Re: QUERY: ValGrind for windows?

[Kevin P. <pu...@pu...>]

Dallman, John wrote:

> * WINE, or other Windows emulators for Linux. These allow a
>   Windows program to run on Linux, by surrounding it with a
>   semi-complete simulation of Windows. That still wouldn't
>   let Valgrind deal with a Windows program. You could run
>   Valgrind on the Windows emulator, which would include the
>   Windows program running within it, but the odds of ever
>   learning anything useful from this are very small: it's
>   too complicated.

Actually, there was a point at which this was useful (see
http://valgrind.org/downloads/variants.html), though I doubt the fragments
are much good to a user at this point. The code was never merged to
mainline (I'll assume there was a good reason, as I certainly can't claim
to understand what was done to this variant) and given the major
architectural changes since 2003 I suspect forward-porting the change would
be all but impossible. 

One would really have to dig through the diff vs. a contemporary valgrind
release and figure out what it was actually trying to accomplish, then
start over on making that happen. As I have no idea what was really
different in it I don't know how hard this would be. But, I'd assume from
the fact that it's been 2+ years with nothing but an occasional email list
mention of the fact that it once existed (hey, now we've got this year's
in) that it that it must be fairly involved.