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From: Julian S. <js...@ac...> - 2010-10-11 09:55:55
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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 |