Re: [Valgrind-developers] Some Darwin / Mac OS X porting notes

[Nicholas N. <nj...@cs...>]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Greg Parker wrote:

> Some notes about porting Valgrind 3.x to Mac OS X / PowerPC:
>
> * Darwin always uses a 64-bit off_t, even on 32-bit architectures.
>
> * dispatch.S should be platform-specific instead of arch-specific.
>
> * Some Darwin syscalls take 7 arguments
>
> * Darwin syscalls return a full 64-bit result, even on 32-bit
>  architectures.
>
> * Darwin/PPC syscalls indicate success and failure in an unusual
>  way:

This is all good stuff.  You must be handling these things in your port if 
you are running real programs, right?  It would be good to see your port 
code to see how you are handling these.

N