Valgrind

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Valgrind

http://valgrind.org/
Memory debugger

Valgrind finds memory-management problems by checking all reads and writes of memory are checked, and intercepting all calls to malloc/new/free/delete. As a result, Valgrind can detect problems like the use of uninitialised memory, reading/writing memory after it has been free'd, reading/writing off the end of malloc'd blocks, reading/writing inappropriate areas on the stack, memory leaks, and passing of uninitialised and/or unaddressible memory to system calls. Valgrind tracks each byte of memory with nine status bits: one tracks addressibility, and the other eight validity. As a result, it can detect the use of single uninitialised bits, and does not report spurious errors on bitfield operations. Valgrind debugs almost any dynamically-linked ELF x86 executable without modification or recompilation.





Licensing

License

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Notes

License

GPLv2

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Janet Casey

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3 July 2002




Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)Role
Nicholas Nethercote Contributor
Julian Seward Maintainer
Michael Matz Contributor
Daniel Berlin Contributor
Dirk Mueller Contributor
Simon Hausmann Contributor


Resources and communication

AudienceResource typeURI
Debian (Ref)https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/valgrind
DeveloperMailing List Info/Archivehttp://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/valgrind-developers
Bug TrackingE-mailmailto:jseward@acm.org
SupportMailing List Info/Archivehttp://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/valgrind-users
HelpMailing List Info/Archivehttp://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/valgrind-announce


Software prerequisites

KindDescription
Weak prerequisitegdb




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