BTW: one of the biggest advantages: no need to compile/link with it - if you have a big project with a lot of libraries and makefiles this purify becomes very painful...
-----Original Message----- From: Guy Baruch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 11:52 AM To: Kovriga, Gregory Subject: Re: valgrind Vs purify ? (was KDE 3.0.2 RPM packages) how does it compare with rational's purify tool ? Kovriga, Gregory wrote: >I tried it on a real project (we were porting from HP to Linux and it turned >out that Linux isn't so forgiving as HP when talking about memory :) >It was very helpful! > > Nadav Har'el wrote: > > >Valgrind is a GPL memory overflow/leak/etc checker for i386 Linux. >Version 1.0.0 was released a few days ago: see > http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/ > >Looks very promising, but I haven't tried it yet in a real project. > >It's distributed by the KDE project, but has nothing to do KDE, or any kind >of UI (it's a command-line utility). > > > -- -- regards +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + Guy Baruch , Plasma Laboratory, Weizmann Institue. + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + phone: 972-8-934-2211 +----------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've got something in your pocket that says, "In God We Trust" on it, please send it to your local church where it belongs, before it's too late! ================================================================= 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]
