Re: [Valgrind-developers] Porting valgrind to FreeBSD

[Dirk M. <dm...@gm...>]

On Saturday 27 December 2003 15:40, Doug Rabson wrote:

> Is there any interest here in merging support for FreeBSD? 

Absolutely yes. 

> Most of the 
> syscall hairy bits should also help to get NetBSD and OpenBSD going too.
> I have ended up with a bit of an ifdef tangle in a few places but that
> might be best managed by simply forking a few of the source files
> (vg_kerneliface.h, vg_syscalls.c and similar). My patch is currently
> about 130k (as a unified diff against 2.1.0.

Yes. ideally we should start with a directory structure and move the linux 
specific files in a subdir, and fork them for other operating systems or 
architectures. 

which files did you have to modify most? vg_syscalls and kerneliface, anything 
else?


Dirk