Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Memory Debugger
From: Josh Green (jgreen_AT_users.sourceforge.net)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 11:53:15 EEST
On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 19:00, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Richard C. Burnett" wrote:
> >
> > I am looking for a product similar to Purify to use in Linux, any ideas?
> >
>
> Everyone says valgrind is the hottest thing...
> http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/
>
Wow, I just tried it. Great piece of software, I agree, it is the
hottest thing as far as memory debuggers that I have gotten to work yet.
I like its method of operation better than the other ones I've tried.
Rather than aborting your program it displays messages and doesn't
require recompiling or changing source code, it also has lots of nice
documentation. Looks like it still needs some work in the
multi-threading area, but I see that that is being worked on. I ran it
with my program and it gave a rather clean bill of health (at least in
relation to my code) some of the shared libraries I'm using appear to
have some possible problems though :) It did point out some valid memory
leaks and it tested positive with uninitialized pointers. Real cool.
Thanks for the recommendation.
Cheers!
Josh Green
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