On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Tom Hughes <t...@compton.nu> wrote: > On 24/03/14 09:37, Subhashish Pradhan wrote: > >> 1 - It was mentioned "it may well be that no memory is read/written, >> but you'd have to look at the kernel and see what that ioctl does to >> be sure." Does it mean using strace or looking at kernel logs using >> dmesg? > > > It means reading the kernel source to see what that ioctl does and what > memory it accesses.
... > Porting valgrind to a new platform is a major undertaking so you really need > to start by reading the code carefully and understanding it all works. If > you try and understand it by asking questions about every little detail here > it will be very painful... > ... > All that should have been pretty obvious from reading one of them though, > which is exactly what I just had to do to answer your question, as they have > lots of comments in explaining what is going on. > > > Tom > > -- > Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) > http://compton.nu/ I think I'd have to really go through the source and work them out rather than getting the gist from documentation and stopping there. But may I come back here to ask about the correctness of an implementation or patch in future if I'm able to do that? Regards, Subhashish Pradhan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list Valgrind-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
