Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-02-25
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : valgrind
Version : 0.0.0.20020221
Upstream Author : Julian Seward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://devel-home.kde.org/~sewardj/
* License : GPL
Description : a memory debugger for x86-linux
Valgrind is a GPL'd tool to help you find memory-management problems in your
programs. When a program is run under Valgrind's supervision, all reads and
writes of memory are checked, and calls to malloc/new/free/delete are
intercepted. As a result, Valgrind can detect problems such as:
* Use of uninitialised memory
* Reading/writing memory after it has been free'd
* Reading/writing off the end of malloc'd blocks
* Reading/writing inappropriate areas on the stack
* Memory leaks -- where pointers to malloc'd blocks are lost forever
* Passing of uninitialised and/or unaddressible memory to system calls
* Mismatched use of malloc/new/new [] vs free/delete/delete []
Valgrind can debug more or less any dynamically-linked ELF Linux x86
executable, without modification, recompilation, or anything.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux muscat 2.4.18-pre9 #1 mer fév 13 22:37:06 CET 2002 i686
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
