Re: [Valgrind-developers] SOLARIS / SPARC port

[Vince W. <vi...@cs...>]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, James Clause wrote:
> Thanks for the response.  The final goal of the port isn't to use the
> current set of valgrind tools but to have a full featured dynamic
> binary instrumenter for Solaris / SPARC.  I'm not aware of anything
> that meets that criteria.  Maybe someone else knows something that
> does.  The closest thing that I'm aware of is the dbx debugger's
> runtime checking.  However, it doesn't look like it's designed to
> support custom tools.

It's not full featured, but you can do DBI of a sort using Qemu if you 
aren't afraid of digging around in the internals.  I only bring this up 
because co-incidentally I've been working on using Qemu to get 
instruction/basic-block counts on linux/SPARC binaries.  Currently about 
1/3 of the SPEC2000 binaries will run properly, I'm working on getting the 
rest to run.  I don't think there is support for Solaris binaries though.

Adding SPARC support to valgrind will be difficult I imagine, if only 
because of register windows and branch-delay slots.

Vince