Simeon Nifos wrote: > Dear all, > there are some packages essential to those who are working in scientific > computing. These are: > > 0) first and foremost, a memory debugger ala valgrind; > could we use valgrind under OpenSolaris? What other > alternatives do we have?
dbx in the Sun Studio compilers includes a memory debugger in it's "Run Time Check" feature (the "check" subcommand): http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-7597/blahb?a=view http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/overview/topics/debug_index.html http://blogs.sun.com/janitor/entry/runtime_memory_checking The related "Sun Memory Error Discovery Tool" is also available: http://cooltools.sunsource.net/discover/ The OS also includes an alternate memory management library called libumem that has some debugging features: http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/libumem_library.html http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/solaris_10_top_11_20 http://blogs.sun.com/quenelle/entry/using_dbx_and_libumem_to -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
