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Executive Summary
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Valgrind is a GPL'd system for debugging and profiling x86-Linux programs.
With the tools that come with Valgrind, you can automatically detect
many memory management and threading bugs, avoiding hours of frustrating
bug-hunting, making your programs more stable. You can also perform
detailed profiling to help speed up your programs.
Valgrind is an award-winning suite of tools for debugging and profiling
Linux programs. With the tools that come with Valgrind, you can
automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, avoiding
hours of frustrating bug-hunting, making your programs more stable. You can
also perform detailed profiling, to speed up and reduce memory use of your
programs.
The Valgrind distribution includes five tools: two memory error
The Valgrind distribution currently includes five tools: two memory error
detectors, a thread error detector, a cache profiler and a heap profiler.
Several other tools have been built with Valgrind.
To give you an idea of what Valgrind tools do, when a program is run
under the supervision of the first memory error detector tool, all reads