Re: [Valgrind-users] Sparc port status

[Ivo R. <iv...@iv...>]

2016-07-26 15:53 GMT+02:00 Rob Boehne <ro...@da...>:

> As I’ve found valgrind quite useful on x86/Linux for many years, I was
> very excited to see a project to support Solaris Sparc, and I’d love to
> have this available, as I maintain a large, old codebase with a pool
> allocator (Electric Fence doesn’t deal well with it, and isn’t useful for
> leak checking, or the other things valgrind can do).
>
> Where can I find information on how to build, what versions of Solaris are
> supported on what hardware, and what works?
>
> I’m happy to contribute to the effort as well.
>
>
Hello Robert,

Thank you for your interest in sparcv9/Solaris port.
The port currently lives here: https://bitbucket.org/iraisr/valgrind-solaris
and is also linked from http://valgrind.org/info/platforms.html
It is under active development and still far from complete.

As with x86+amd64/Solaris, we aim at Solaris 11 and illumos (or higher).
We have no intention to spend effort on Solaris 10 as this OS is now over
10 years old and will become unsupported soon.

With sparcv9/Solaris, we obviously target 64-bit programs. Area of 32-bit
programs with sparcv8+ is quite murky.
We might add sparv8+ later, when sparcv9 is largely finished.
We aim to support all sparcv9 hardware, that is starting from T1 up to
currently T7, ... and their M-series equivalents.
Currently we are implementing Oracle Sparc Architecture 2015 [1] features
(which correspond to T7/M7).

For instructions how to build please follow README.solaris and generic
README.
We actively develop on Solaris 12, and Solaris 11 should also work ok.

Any contributions are welcome. We maintain a list of issues:
https://bitbucket.org/iraisr/valgrind-solaris/issues?status=new&status=open
and you are free to take any. The main development work is now focused on
fixing last few failing tests
under none/tests (only 10 failing out of 474 total) and then we will focus
on enabling memcheck.

Happy Valgrind'ing!
I.

[1]
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/sun-sparc-enterprise/documentation/sparc-servers-documentation-163529.html