Subject: Re: checker0.8 for NetBSD
To: None <chammer@HRZ.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
From: None <david@mono.org>
List: current-users
Date: 10/22/1996 17:24:10
On Tue, 22 Oct 1996 chammer@HRZ.Uni-Bielefeld.DE wrote:
> These days there is a new release of checker coming
> out. It should be better portable and comes in
> a ready to compile version for sparc and i386 (linux).
> I really would love to be able to use it with
> NetBSD to find some memory leaks in some software.
>
> Did anybody look at it?
> Last time i looked this new version was not available
> on:
> Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/devel/lang/c
> 569880 bytes Checker-0.8.tgz
> 1550984 bytes Checker-libs-0.8.tgz
> Maintained-by: gingold@email.enst.fr
>
> I really believe this would be something very valuable
> for NetBSD to be added as standard.
>
While it looks like a nice tool, you would need to persuade the
author to release it under a BSD copyright before it could be
included in NetBSD (As to whether it _should_ - thats a core
matter :)
David/abs (david@mono.org)
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