Well then...they just don't know how to use the tools they have. Lovely. On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:58 PM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/10/2013 5:47 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > >> FWIW, MS Visual Studio 2010, which I use for editing and alpha testing, >> has >> excellent memory leak diagnosis facilities. >> > > Not only memory diagnosis tools but a complete development toolset. > Including a profiler that you can > attach to a running process (strobe, IBM APA etc). All that with a very > competitive price, free! > > I'm an Ubuntu/Slickedit user myself and valgrind is the programmers best > friend. Of course, it has Memcheck, > but also cachegrind, a very nice cache and branch-prediction profiler. I > am very envious of our zVM/zLinux > brethren and their superior tool sets. They have access to the best of > breed open source software tools > that are not available to us on z/OS. I'm sure the IBM compiler have > internal tools, but if they ever make them > GA they will come with a premium price tag. > > What I tend to do is develop as much code as possible on Ubuntu for fast > compiles and valgrind. It's not perfect but it's better than nothing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
