[haiku-development] Re: GSOC valgrind port
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:15:40 +0100 CET
Adrian Panasiuk <adek336@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Would a port of the valgrind tools (in particular memcheck and
> perhaps
> helgrind) be useful to Haiku? They greatly help improving userland
> apps.
>
> The valgrind tools run the analyzed program on an emulated CPU, which
> means that a significant portion of the code is platform-specific. Do
> you reckon this is feasible to do in three months' time? Or perhaps 3
> months is more than enough?
Valgrind would be pretty cool to have. However, I have no idea how hard
it would be to port it.
I would think it might be very well possible that it does not take 3
month to port. Maybe you could have some additional suggestions what
you might do if that proves to be correct :-)
Bye,
Axel.
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