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From: Nicholas N. <n.n...@gm...> - 2009-09-11 12:06:48
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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Stanislav Sedov <st...@fr...> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 22:22:25 +0400 > Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> mentioned: > >> Hi, guys! >> >> As you might know there has been work going on in the FreeBSD >> community to port Valgrind to FreeBSD OS. Currently thanks to >> efforts of a lot of developers we have a working preliminary >> port done. Althought a lot of work has to be done yet, it is >> in a good shape now and fairly usable on both amd64 and i386 >> platforms. >> >> I'd love to work with someone from the community on integrating >> our patches to the main tree to avoid excessive merge conflicts >> in the future. There have been a lot of changes so that work >> will require a good amount of time and coordination. >> >> Is it possible? How do we proceed? >> >> Let me know your thoughts. >> > > So, is anyone interested? Where I should submit patches to? http://www.valgrind.org/info/platforms.html gives our general view on ports. In short, Valgrind ports are, as you say, a great deal of work. The recent Darwin port represented years of work. And the audience for a *BSD port is greatly smaller than Darwin. So the cost/benefit ratio doesn't look very good. Nick |