11.10.2010, 15:52, "Julian Seward" <jsew...@acm.org>: > On Monday, October 11, 2010, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > >> 11.10.2010, 03:34, "Nicholas Nethercote" <n.netherc...@gmail.com>;: >>> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Konstantin Tokarev <annu...@yandex.ru>; > > wrote: > >>>> Hello, >>>> I'm interested in getting Valgrind working on PPC/Darwin. I see PPC and >>>> Darwin are already supported, so I see the last obstacle is >>>> "platform-specific code" for this combination of CPU and OS. >>>> >>>> What changes should be introduced into Valgrind sources to get it >>>> working? I'd like to try, but never worked with Valgrind sources. >>> PPC/Darwin is an almost-dead platform, one that soon will be entirely >>> dead. I don't think this is worth the effort. Such a port would be >>> unlikely to be incorporated into the Valgrind distribution because the >>> maintenance effort wouldn't be worth the tiny audience for it. >> Could you answer my question anyway? > > It's a lot of work. To get some idea how much, grep the entire tree > for #if defined(VGP_x86_darwin). You'd have to make an equivalent > version for ppc32_darwin. There are a lot of such places, perhaps > 100.
Not so many - only about 50 :) However, things are very complicated, and comments are not thorough enough for me to understand high-level logic Could you add some documentation about porting Valgrind to other platforms in future? -- Regards, Konstantin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list Valgrind-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
