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Archive for April, 2009

RFC: Making Valgrind easier to use with multi-process programs

Posted in Valgrind on April 30th, 2009 13 Comments »

Now that I’m working for Mozilla, one of my goals is to make Valgrind easier to use on big programs like Firefox. One feature of such programs is that often they create multiple processes. For example, when I invoke ‘firefox’ on my Linux box, I’m really running three programs. /usr/bin/firefox is a [...]

Valgrind + Mac OS X update (April 17, 2009)

Posted in Mac OS X, Valgrind on April 17th, 2009 Comments Off

It’s time for the April update on the progress of the Mac OS X port of Valgrind.  It’s been a quieter month because I was on vacation for over 3 weeks, and Julian Seward hasn’t had a great deal of time to work on the port either.  Even still, in that time 77 commits have [...]