[oi-dev] OT: Valgrind for sparcv9 - was: Re: Valgrind

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On Sat, 2025-02-15 at 08:50 +0100, Paul Floyd via oi-dev wrote:
> 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.

Slightly off-topic, but does anyone have a copy of the Valgrind git repository
which contains the port to sparcv9?

See:

- https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/valgrind_sparcv9/attachments/slides/1643/export/events/attachments/valgrind_sparcv9/slides/1643/valgrind_on_sparcv9.pdf
- https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/valgrind_sparcv9/

Thanks,
Adrian

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