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.

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