Prepare for some new features which I've heard their working on now (can't tell which though)..
Valgrind is now considered a "must" for the KDE development team. Unfortunately, it's not distributed by Red Hat (donno about other distributions, I think they won't distribute it too) due to a patent (can't remember patent number) Hetz On Tuesday 02 July 2002 03:45, guy keren wrote: > (for those who don't know - 'valgrind' is probably the most advanced > open-source software for detecting memroy corruption and leaks bugs in > C/C++ applications, on linux/X86). > > i've seen a mention of 'valgrind' made by muli a while back, regarding a > bug he fixed for syscalltrack. i re-checked 'valgrind' today, and it looks > like it had improved alot since 1-2 month back - it now supports linux > 2.2 kernels (and not only 2.4 kernels) and glibc 2.1 (and not only 2.2), > so it runs on redhat 6.2 and up. > > actually, it had some problem on my machine, but a small code change fixed > the problem. and it works. and works quite well. i tested valgrind on a > small (around 40K lines) gtk application we're developing, and managed to > find varius memory leaks and memory corruption bugs using it. the > application works quite well, and althought it has a noticeable impact on > the execution speed of the tested application, the application is still > able to operate. for anyone who was looking for something that could match > the abilities of purify/insure++/boundschecker on linux, without paying > the monopoly-prize to parasoft, you must check out valgrind. > > the URL is 'http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/', and version 1.0 is rather > near. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
