Valgrind for FreeBSD

Doug Rabson dfr at nlsystems.com
Sat Apr 10 01:33:33 PDT 2004


On Saturday 10 April 2004 01:20, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> On Apr 9, 2004, at 7:07 AM, Doug Rabson wrote:
> > As some of you might be aware, recently I've been working on
> > porting the
> > excellent valgrind debugger to FreeBSD (both -stable and -current).
> > If you are interested in trying it out, you can find details on how
> > to get the latest version at http://www.rabson.org/#valgrind.
> > Enjoy...
>
> For anyone trying to build on FreeBSD 5.1, it requires a small tweak,
> since libc_r in that version did not have support for
> pthread_spinlock_t's.  I believe this is the correct change, since
> __FreeBSD_version 501107 seems to be the next bump after the addition
> of pthread_spinlock_t support.

Patch applied. Thanks!


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