Re: [linuxtools-dev] Re: Linux-only features

[Charley Wang <chwang@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- "Andrew Overholt" <overholt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I guess the question is whether or not tools like Valgrind exist on
> HP-UX.  If we go with John's suggestion of not restricting to
> increase
> potential user base, and we know of the existence of underlying tools
> (ex. Valgrind, OProfile, SystemTap, LTTng) on such non-Linux Unices,
> we
> should probably just exclude the OSes where we _know_ the underlying
> tools don't exist.
> 
> Thoughts?

Agreed! That sounds sensible :)

As a quick summary of supported OSes...

Valgrind:
(various architectures)Linux, X86/Darwin (Mac OS X)

OProfile/SystemTap/LTTng:
I believe userspace tracing for these only supports Linux.

GProf:
I know it does Linux, Mac OS X, not sure of any others


-Charley