Subject: Re: checker0.8 for NetBSD
To: None <chammer@HRZ.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
From: None <david@mono.org>
List: current-users
Date: 10/22/1996 17:24:10
On Tue, 22 Oct 1996 chammer@HRZ.Uni-Bielefeld.DE wrote:

> These days there is a new release of checker coming
> out. It should be better portable and comes in
> a ready to compile version for sparc and i386 (linux).
> I really would love to be able to use it with 
> NetBSD to find some memory leaks in some software.
> 
> Did anybody look at it?
> Last time i looked this new version was not available
> on:
> Primary-site:   sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/devel/lang/c
>                 569880 bytes  Checker-0.8.tgz
>                 1550984 bytes  Checker-libs-0.8.tgz
> Maintained-by:  gingold@email.enst.fr
> 
> I really believe this would be something very valuable 
> for NetBSD to be added as standard.
> 
	While it looks like a nice tool, you would need to persuade the
	author to release it under a BSD copyright before it could be
	included in NetBSD (As to whether it _should_ - thats a core
	matter	:)

                   David/abs             (david@mono.org)

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