insure++ also has a cheperone mode, in which you do not have to compilie
it with your own code.


On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Kovriga, Gregory wrote:

> Here is what I can say from my experience:
> purify - very nice, mostly stable. needs at least linking, and while linking
> it can fail on some unusual library + it uses embedded path as the first
> priority while searching for the library - this particular feature caused
> some problem since libraries are found in places where you don't intend them
> to be found.
> Insure++ - at least our version was buggy - it didn't work. you need to
> compile with it... but it checks your source while compiling so it can find
> a problem (obvious problem) even before running anything...
> valgrind - no compilation, no linking. Eats a lot of memory - thus you are
> limited in number of errors you can report and you need to write suppression
> files to get to the real trouble point... Catches everything that can be
> caught using such a tool.
>
> Thanks,
> Gregory.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Sternberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 12:32 PM
> To: linux-il (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: Valgrind (was: KDE 3.0.2 RPM packages)
>
>
>
>
> Other commercial tools like Insure++ for example ?
>
> --  -----Original Message-----
> --  From: Guy Baruch [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
> --  Subject: Re: Valgrind (was: KDE 3.0.2 RPM packages)
> --
> --  how does it compare with rational's purify tool ?
> --  or any other such commercial 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!
> --  >
>
>

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