Re: [Valgrind-developers] Project ideas

[Paul F. <pa...@fr...>]

On 11 Dec 2016, at 23:13, Philippe Waroquiers wrote:

> On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 20:26 +0100, pa...@fr... wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> After lurking here for a few years, I think it's time that I
>> contributed something a bit more concrete.
>> 
>> At the moment I have two ideas:
>> 
>> Add C++17 support. I also lurk on the BSI C++ panel. Obviously C++17 is
>> not done yet. The first changes that I see are the additional alignment
>> overloads for operator new, see if polymorphic_allocator needs any
>> support. I haven't been through the changes to threads but I imagine
>> there may be things there as well. Do you think that this is too
>> experimental/bleeding edge for Valgrind?
> No idea if C++17 is to be considered experimental or not.
> However, note that there are still some work to do for previous versions
> of C++. See bugs
> Bug 373069 - memcheck/tests/leak_cpp_interior fails with GCC 5.1+
> Bug 372347 - Replacement problem of the additional c++14/c++17 new and
> delete operators
> 


I had a look at the bugzilla items, and 372347 is pretty much what I was referring to. I need to look at the second one a bit more.

By experimental I mean that, for instance, clang support is only at subversion head, not yet in an official release.

>> 
>> Update FreeBSD support. Currently FreeBSD has a version of Valgrind
>> 10.1 available. Initially I'd just like to get it to build and
>> function. After that I'm sure that there are lots of other things like
>> missing syscalls. I've started looking at merging the existing code
>> (the bitbucket FreeBSD repo and Valgrind head), and it looks like a
>> fairly major task, if nothing else there are many manual merges where
>> Solaris and TileGX have been added.
> Yes, this is not a minor task. 
> You might discuss this at the FOSDEM 17 Valgrind devroom and see
> if there is (some) enthusiasm for merging FreeBSD upstream.
> 

OK, I'll leave FreeBSD for now.

I'm not likely to go to FOSDEM, though I might try to catch some videos if possible.

A+
Paul