>> I have searched through the archives and found some informations >> about some work done on porting valgrind and its tools to MacOS X >> (x86 and ppc). >> >> What is the status of these ports ? >> >> Thanks in advance. > > This has been discussed before, not that long ago on one of the > Valgrind > lists, but I couldn't find it in the Gmane index. > > In short, apparently an incomplete but reasonably usable x86/MacOSX > port has > been written by Greg Parker, an Apple employee. We would love to > have this > port become part of Valgrind, as it would broaden Valgrind's audience > greatly (more than any other port except a Windows port, which would > be > technically difficult, but some people have been making excellent > progress > lately with Wine). > > AFAICT the obstacles to Greg's code being made public are more legal > (to do > with Apple releasing open source code) than technical. Although Greg > earlier suggested that a post-Leopard release was possible, that > hasn't > eventuated so it's unclear if/when it will be made public. If > anyone has > more recent/better information than I do please feel free to correct > me!
I'm currently helping Greg internally at Apple to expedite the release process. The main stumbling block is our time, as both of us are quite busy. Regards, Robert. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Valgrind-developers mailing list Valgrind-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-developers
