Even I wanted to run Valgrind badly on my armv5t. I tried few patches but somehow could not get it up & running. And I am not very good at assembly either to make those changes & run it on armv5. So I had to settle with some other tool which is not as good as Valgrind is.
On 25-Sep-2012, at 1:26 AM, Baurzhan Ismagulov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 09:01:14PM -0700, John Reiser wrote: >> Within the past year I have supplied patches to valgrind-3.7.0 to make >> memcheck for non-threaded programs run on armv5[t]. This was contentious, >> and the patches were not accepted into the official source code repository. > > Which is a pity. There is a large installed base of armv5 systems that > desperately need valgrind. I could find some mails in the valgrind-devel > archives that boil down to 1. armv5 support is not perfect, and 2. it > would be costly to make it perfect. Which is also a pity, because 1. > it's ok to have some pieces working better than others -- and what we > have is far better than nothing, 2. if there is no committed baseline, > there will be no improvements ("release early, release often"). Provide > code -- accept patches -- let the community, if any, support that part. > I personally would welcome if the decision would be reviewed. > > >> Find a way to use almost any current-generation armv7-based tablet computer >> as a debugging device. > > As the OP also wrote, it's the periphery that makes this infeasible. If > it were, one could get fairly good results with valgrind on i386 > instead. > > > With kind regards, > Baurzhan. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Valgrind-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
