clang options for load segments

[Ed Maste]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 14:37, Paul Floyd <pjfloyd at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> I'll work on fixing it in Valgrind, but that is likely to be fair amount
> of work.

I guess that recent Clang+lld will produce the same PT_LOAD on Linux
too, so it seems like this is definitely something Valgrind will need
to handle.

> No need to hold your breath. Concerning the FreeBSD port I've been
> working on Valgrind on FreeBSD for about a year or so and now it's not
> too far from working as well on FreeBSD as it does on Linux*.
>
> Either install the devel/valgrind-devel package (note: not
> devel/valgrind) or even better build and install from my github repo
> https://github.com/paulfloyd/freebsd_valgrind. I have a commit bit for
> upstream Valgrind and am working on integrating FreeBSD support in the
> 'official' Valgrind. This probably won't be in the next release, 3.17,
> due soon, but I hope that it gets into the next one (3.17.1 or 3.18).
> And I'm always on the lookout for any user feedback :-) .

Thank you so much for this, I will be very happy to finally see
FreeBSD support upstream.

IMO we should look at removing devel/valgrind and replacing it with
valgrind-devel, given the amount of not-upstream work that exists in
both of them.