Re: [Valgrind-developers] Porting valgrind to FreeBSD

[Doug R. <df...@nl...>]

On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 17:02, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> 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?

Most of the really serious hacking was in vg_mylibc, vg_proxylwp,
vg_signals, vg_syscalls and vg_kerneliface. Most of the rest of the
changes are simple things (like working around the lack of
ksa_restorer).