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From: Stanislav S.
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On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:06:38 +1000 Nicholas Nethercote <n.n...@gm...> mentioned: > 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. > Nicholas, as I outlined in the original email we have the perliminary port done. It is currently available in the FreeBSD ports collection, but supporting internal fork of valgrind project seems to me not the best way to go. There will be operational costs needed to integrate our patches into the three, but I don't think they will be *too* high. Target audience is questionable, but note that FreeBSD is heavily used as server OS where server applications get profiled and where darwin is not widely used. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks! -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE |