On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 09:33:19 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
Valgrind is an incredibly useful tool, but programs run
terribly slowly under it.
On the other hand the C/C++ world in the last years has seen
numerous advancements that D should keep an eye on. If you look
at the latest versions of LLVM-Clang and GCC you see various
"sanitizers" (available as built-in tools of the compiler) that
don't use too much memory, don't slow down your code too much,
and catch dangling or wrong pointers, integer overflows,
past-by-one errors, and more. One of those tools is less needed
by D (thanks to the good management of the array bounds), but
the
others are nice.
Bye,
bearophile
Except, as far as I am aware, they only work on GNU/Linux and Mac
OS X, leaving out all other operating systems out there.
--
Paulo
