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3 | <pkgmetadata> |
| 4 | <herd>no-herd</herd> |
4 | <herd>no-herd</herd> |
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| 6 | <maintainer> |
5 | <maintainer> |
| 7 | <description>Package has no maintainer</description> |
6 | <email>griffon26@gentoo.org</email> |
| 8 | </maintainer> |
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| 10 | <longdescription> |
8 | <longdescription> |
| 11 | Valgrind is a GPL'd tool to help you find memory-management problems |
9 | Valgrind is a GPL'd tool to help you find memory-management problems |
| 12 | in your programs. When a program is run under Valgrind's supervision, |
10 | in your programs. When a program is run under Valgrind's supervision, |
| 13 | all reads and writes of memory are checked, and calls to |
11 | all reads and writes of memory are checked, and calls to |
| 14 | malloc/new/free/delete are intercepted. As a result, Valgrind can |
12 | malloc/new/free/delete are intercepted. As a result, Valgrind can |
| 15 | detect problems such as |
13 | detect problems such as |
| 16 | |
14 | |
| 17 | - Use of uninitialised memory |
15 | - Use of uninitialised memory |
| 18 | - Reading/writing memory after it has been free'd |
16 | - Reading/writing memory after it has been free'd |
| 19 | - Reading/writing off the end of malloc'd blocks |
17 | - Reading/writing off the end of malloc'd blocks |
| 20 | - Reading/writing inappropriate areas on the stack |
18 | - Reading/writing inappropriate areas on the stack |
| 21 | - Memory leaks -- where pointers to malloc'd blocks are lost forever |
19 | - Memory leaks -- where pointers to malloc'd blocks are lost forever |
| 22 | - Passing of uninitialised and/or unaddressible memory to system calls |
20 | - Passing of uninitialised and/or unaddressible memory to system calls |
| 23 | - Mismatched use of malloc/new/new [] vs free/delete/delete [] |
21 | - Mismatched use of malloc/new/new [] vs free/delete/delete [] |
| 24 | - Some abuses of the POSIX Pthreads API |
22 | - Some abuses of the POSIX Pthreads API |
| 25 | </longdescription> |
23 | </longdescription> |
| 26 | </pkgmetadata> |
24 | </pkgmetadata> |
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