(if you top-post - i'll post-top too! :P~~~) well, that _is_ good news for employers (bad news for the students ;)
--guy Vadim Eisenberg wrote: > guy keren wrote: >> you can mention memory leaks if you want - but students don't care about >> them so much, because it doesn't break their programs. > > Starting from the Winter 2008-2009 semester, the memory leaks are checked in > Matam (Introduction to Systems Programming) course and 1 point is reduced for > each leak. The check is done automatically, using, guess what, valgrind. So > the students in Matam actually care very much about the memory leaks. > > Vadim > > -----Original Message----- > From: haifux-boun...@haifux.org [mailto:haifux-boun...@haifux.org] On Behalf > Of guy keren > Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 9:47 AM > To: Eli Billauer > Cc: Haifa Linux Club > Subject: Re: [Haifux] [W2L] Call for lecturer + "Linux guru" > > Eli Billauer wrote: >> guy keren wrote: >> >>> what - no valgrind? >>> >> I stand corrected. A quick demonstration of valgrind (show how it >> detects memory leaks and access to unallocated/uninitialized memory) >> is in place. It's definitely something handy for a student, and it's >> so simple to use. >> >> Eli >> > > i think the best demo for valgrind would be: > > 1. this step should be done at home: write a program that has a non-obvious > problem with corrupting its memory (make sure that when you run it, it > actually crashes) > > 2. the next steps will be done during the demonstration: show it to the > people (the source, how the program crashes, and how you fail to find the > problem even when the crash is done inside gdb) > > 3. show them how you find the bug within seconds using valgrind. > > you can mention memory leaks if you want - but students don't care about them > so much, because it doesn't break their programs. they do care about memory > corruption if it indeed causes their program to crash. > > --guy > _______________________________________________ > Haifux mailing list > Haifux@haifux.org > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux > _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux