Posted in Uncategorized on May 29th, 2009 4 Comments »
With the Valgrind-on-Mac support coming along nicely, it’s worth addressing another widely-used platform: Windows. Will Valgrind work on Windows any time soon? There are actually two answers: (a) hell no, and (b) it already does (sort of).
The patch I merged from the Darwin branch onto the trunk yesterday was 28,300 lines. And that was almost [...]
Posted in Mac OS X, Valgrind on May 28th, 2009 17 Comments »
This morning I merged the DARWIN branch, which had been holding Valgrind’s support for Mac OS X, onto the trunk. The branch is now defunct, and Valgrind-on-Mac users should check out the trunk like so:
svn co svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk <dirname>
cd <dirname>
and then build it according to the instructions in the README file.
This is a good thing, [...]
Posted in Mac OS X, Valgrind on May 18th, 2009 4 Comments »
It’s time for the May update on the progress of the Mac OS X port of Valgrind. In the last month, 133 commits have been made to the DARWIN branch by Julian Seward and myself.
Here are the current (as of r9898) values of the metrics I have been using as a means of tracking progress.
The [...]