[Valgrind-developers] Adding Massif to the repository

[Nicholas N. <nj...@ca...>]

Hi,

I'd like to add Massif, my heap-profiling tool (see
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~njn25/valgrind.html) to the Valgrind repository.

It seems useful, complements the existing tools well (in that it does
something completely different), is robust, and should be pretty stable.

I don't know whether it should be added to the actual distributions;
maybe just developer releases, or maybe the stable releases too.  But
having it in the repository has two main advantages:

  1. makes it much easier for people to try it (just check out CVS HEAD)

  2. saves me from updating it when Valgrind changes

Another option would be to bundle it up as a separate tool, like Calltree.
That would retain (1) -- in a slightly different way -- but not (2).  My
preference would be to put it into CVS, but I don't have compelling
reasons for this.

Comments?

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