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Add descriptions of DRD and Ptrcheck in the manual intro. Bart, Julian,

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please change these if you don't like what I've written, and merge the
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Nicholas Nethercote
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@@ -93,19 +93,6 @@ summary, these are:</para>
graphical and easy-to-understand form.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><command>Massif</command> is a heap profiler.
It measures how much heap memory programs use. In particular,
it can give you information about heap blocks, heap
administration overheads, and stack sizes.</para>
<para>Heap profiling can help you reduce the amount of
memory your program uses. On modern machines with virtual
memory, this reduces the chances that your program will run out
of memory, and may make it faster by reducing the amount of
paging needed.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><command>Helgrind</command> detects synchronisation errors
in programs that use the POSIX pthreads threading primitives. It
@@ -127,9 +114,34 @@ summary, these are:</para>
<para>Problems like these often result in unreproducible,
timing-dependent crashes, deadlocks and other misbehaviour, and
can be difficult to find by other means.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><command>DRD</command> is similar to Helgrind, but uses a
different analysis technique and so may find different problems.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><command>Massif</command> is a heap profiler.
It measures how much heap memory programs use. In particular,
it can give you information about heap blocks, heap
administration overheads, and stack sizes.</para>
<para>Heap profiling can help you reduce the amount of
memory your program uses. On modern machines with virtual
memory, this reduces the chances that your program will run out
of memory, and may make it faster by reducing the amount of
paging needed.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><command>Ptrcheck</command> is an experimental pointer checking
tool. Its functionality overlaps somewhat with Memcheck's, but it can
find some problems that Memcheck would miss.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
@@ -158,7 +170,7 @@ it works on machines with Linux kernel 2.4.X or 2.6.X and glibc
version 2. The <computeroutput>valgrind/*.h</computeroutput> headers
that you may wish to include in your code (eg.
<filename>valgrind.h</filename>, <filename>memcheck.h</filename>,
<filename>helgrind.h</filename>) are
<filename>helgrind.h</filename>, etc.) are
distributed under a BSD-style license, so you may include them in your
code without worrying about license conflicts. Some of the PThreads
test cases, <filename>pth_*.c</filename>, are taken from "Pthreads