Valgrind and Darwin

[Dan Kegel]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008, Rainer Müller wrote:
>Greg Parker is working on a patch to bring valgrind to Darwin/Mac OS X.
>
>Check the homepage of the port:
>    http://www.sealiesoftware.com/valgrind/
>    Valgrind for Mac OS X. Some assembly required.
>
>I just wanted to by write a Portfile doing the svn checkouts and
>patching for convenience.
>
>I don't think this is ready for the general public, so I did not create
>a valgrind port in the official ports tree.

According to
http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2009/05/28/mac-os-x-now-supported-on-the-valgrind-trunk
the port is now in the valgrind trunk.  It may be about ready for
the general public.  We've been using it on Chromium for months
now, and it has found quite a few leaks and other problems.
(Including a bug in the ATI drivers that can crash Desktop Manager...
so until Apple/ATI fix their drivers, we have had to switch to Nvidia
cards on systems that run valgrind.)
- Dan