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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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<email>griffon26@gentoo.org</email> |
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</maintainer> |
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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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- 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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