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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
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<pkgmetadata>
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<herd>no-herd</herd>
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<maintainer>
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chriswhite |
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<email>griffon26@gentoo.org</email>
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</maintainer>
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chriswhite |
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<longdescription>
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Valgrind is a GPL'd tool to help you find memory-management problems
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in your programs. When a program is run under Valgrind's supervision,
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all reads and writes of memory are checked, and calls to
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malloc/new/free/delete are intercepted. As a result, Valgrind can
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detect problems such as
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chriswhite |
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- Use of uninitialised memory
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- Reading/writing memory after it has been free'd
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- Reading/writing off the end of malloc'd blocks
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- Reading/writing inappropriate areas on the stack
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- Memory leaks -- where pointers to malloc'd blocks are lost forever
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- Passing of uninitialised and/or unaddressible memory to system calls
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- Mismatched use of malloc/new/new [] vs free/delete/delete []
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- Some abuses of the POSIX Pthreads API
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</longdescription>
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</pkgmetadata>
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