Re: Valgrind on netbsd x86 and amd64

[Paul Ripke <stix%stix.id.au@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 04:24:45PM +0200, Jan Danielsson wrote:
> On 2020-06-25 16:01, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> > how is the status of Valgrind? om amd64?
> > I have a program which fails on NetBSD, but works on Linux and FreeBSD.
> > I was asked to run it on Valgrind.
> > 
> > I noticed, thet it is not available in packages. Some references show it
> > is an ongoing project, it is dead? or perhaps avaiable only on 32bit intel?
> 
>    I remember seeing someone writing a blog post about how they stopped
> their porting attempts to NetBSD because they said that Valgrind is
> simply too Linux-specific, and even if a reasonably functional port
> would be made, maintaining it would be too much work.
> 
>    Granted, this was many years ago -- things might be different now.
> 
> 
>    As an alternative, what's the status of ASan and its cousin
> sanitizers on NetBSD?

I'm almost positive I used Clang/LLVM ASan on netbsd-8, but now that I
try it under netbsd-9, with upgraded pkgsrc, I don't see the libraries
installed...

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