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Upstreaming the FreeBSD Port

Talkat FOSDEM 2022 · on Sunday, 2022-02-06· at 14:20· D.valgrind

speaker

name:Paul Floyd

links:none on file

resources

video:https://video.fosdem.org/2022/D.valgrind/valgrind_freebsd.mp4

slides:https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/valgrind_freebsd/attachments/slides/4944/export/events/attachments/valgrind_freebsd/slides/4944/upstreaming.key

https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/valgrind_freebsd/attachments/slides/4945/export/events/attachments/valgrind_freebsd/slides/4945/upstreaming.pdf

https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/valgrind_freebsd/attachments/slides/4947/export/events/attachments/valgrind_freebsd/slides/4947/upstreaming.pptx

summary

Covers the FreeBSD Ports collection and its history, then explains Valgrind internals (launcher, stack creation, ELF parsing) as they relate to running on FreeBSD ports. Describes major bugs that were fixed when getting Valgrind upstream on FreeBSD, highlights differences between clang and GCC code generation that caused problems, and outlines remaining bugs and planned work for other hardware platforms.

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