Re: Runtime security/memory checks for gcc/gdb

2010-01-13 Thread guy keren
Amos Shapira wrote: 2010/1/13 guy keren c...@actcom.co.il: if you are running on windows - you can use purify - it's a commercial tool, Why the condition of Windows? Purify is available for Linux as well. --Amos i meant (implied) that if he's using windows, he cannot use valgrind there -

Re: Runtime security/memory checks for gcc/gdb

2010-01-13 Thread Elazar Leibovich
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:50 AM, guy keren c...@actcom.co.il wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: 2010/1/13 guy keren c...@actcom.co.il: if you are running on windows - you can use purify - it's a commercial tool, Why the condition of Windows? Purify is available for Linux as well. --Amos i

Re: Runtime security/memory checks for gcc/gdb

2010-01-13 Thread guy keren
i never performed a thorough head-to-head comparison between the two. valgrind has a few limitations - i didn't check if purify can overcome them or not. if it can - it could be a reason to use both of them. i think i did once check a program, that had a bug that valgrind didn't manage to

Fwd: TinyOgg liberates Flash videos!

2010-01-13 Thread Amos Shapira
Something I just picked up on another linux users mailing list: -- Forwarded message -- FSF volunteer and GNU Generation member Osama Khalid just launched a great tool: TinyOgg. TinyOgg takes in a link to a Flash video (boo!) and spits out a link to an Ogg video (hooray!). *