[oi-dev] Valgrind

[Paul Floyd]

Hi

Just joined the list, and by coincidence I saw

<quote>
Am 12.01.25 um 10:48 schrieb Cedric Blancher:
 > Good morning!
 >
 > Does OpenIndiana have a valgrind package? Illumos/x86-64 is supported
 > by valgrind
 >
 > Ced
╰─➤  pkg list -a|grep valgrind
developer/debug/valgrind 3.22.0-2023.0.0.0          ---

We have it but I don't use it because it is not in a good shape. We had
many failing tests last time I checked.
</quote>

Well the good news is that I'm a Valgrind maintainer and I just pushed a 
few fixes for Solaris and Illumos.

The most important of these concerns signal handling. The functions that 
create and destroy Valgrind's synthesized sigframe were causing 
segfaults. I didn't debug the exact cause, something related to 
optimisations done by GCC.

I'll be asking more questions as I try to clean up more of the 
outstanding issues.

A+
Paul