how to compile valgrind

[Kees Jongenburger]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Christian Nolte <ch.nolte at noltec.org> wrote:
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> Kees Jongenburger schrieb:
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:07 PM, hadroneo <hadroneo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to use valgrind on openmoko,
>>> but when i do :
>>> $ make build-package-valgrind
>> Hello hadroneo,
>>
>> valgrind  only supports x86 and ppc and not arm
>>
>> greetings
>>
> You could use valgrind in host based development, testing the
> application locally on your i386 architecture before uploading it on the
> phone or testing it in the qemu environment.

Indeed valgrind is an excellent tool. I only used to it to optimize
but is was great fun. With http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/
being an execlent plugin for that purpose(knowing where the cycles are).

It certainly helped me port the xmoto game to maemo

greetings






>
> Best regards,
> Christian