Subject: Re: [Summer of Code]valgrind
To: Ruibiao Qiu <ruibiao@arl.wustl.edu>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/13/2005 17:19:20
On 2005.06.12 22:02:01 +0000, Ruibiao Qiu wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I would like to take on this project.  Since there is already a port in 
> FreeBSD, I would start by looking at FreeBSD's valgrind port, and adopt 
> the changes from that to NetBSD.  There are four patches in the FreeBSD 
> port. Most of these patches are for the uses of regparm().  In addition, 
> for FreeBSD 4.x, it requires USE_LDT option in the kernel to perform 
> pointer analysis.  Do these patches apply to NetBSD too?  What are the 
> major difference regarding memory accesses between FreeBSD and NetBSD?  
> Thanks.

I don't about your questions but if you want to take on this project,
please work with the valgrind team as well so you can integrate NetBSD
support into valgrind itself.

-- 
Rui Paulo