Re: [Valgrind-users] Valgrind on PPC/Darwin

[Julian S. <js...@ac...>]

On Monday, October 11, 2010, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> 11.10.2010, 03:34, "Nicholas Nethercote" <n.n...@gm...>:
> > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Konstantin Tokarev <an...@ya...> 
wrote:
> >>  Hello,
> >>  I'm interested in getting Valgrind working on PPC/Darwin. I see PPC and
> >> Darwin are already supported, so I see the last obstacle is
> >> "platform-specific code" for this combination of CPU and OS.
> >> 
> >>  What changes should be introduced into Valgrind sources to get it
> >> working? I'd like to try, but never worked with Valgrind sources.
> > 
> > PPC/Darwin is an almost-dead platform, one that soon will be entirely
> > dead. I don't think this is worth the effort. Such a port would be
> > unlikely to be incorporated into the Valgrind distribution because the
> > maintenance effort wouldn't be worth the tiny audience for it.
> 
> Could you answer my question anyway?

It's a lot of work.  To get some idea how much, grep the entire tree
for #if defined(VGP_x86_darwin).  You'd have to make an equivalent
version for ppc32_darwin.  There are a lot of such places, perhaps
100.

J