On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 23:50:31 +1000 Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you are a C or a C++ coder on an X86 platform then you should be > looking at valgrind. > > valgrind will run your program and detect memory problems with it. It > can detect leaks where things are allocated and not freed (forgotten to > close a filehandle?) > > This is excellent software that has already saved me hours finding > bugs. I have used codeguard on Windows Borland compilers for this very > reason, now I have an OSS solution. > > Really cool... Run your application through it today, you might be > surprised to find some latent bugs. Yep, I've been using Valgrind for over a year after Conrad Parker pointed it out to me. I believe tha Valgrind is one of those innovations that M$ tries to tell us doesn't happen on Linux. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ???" --Richard A. O'Keefe -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
