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Package: valgrind (1:3.5.0-3)

A memory debugger and profiler

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.

Valgrind can debug more or less any dynamically-linked ELF x86/Linux, amd64/Linux and ppc/Linux executables, without modification, recompilation, or anything.

Valgrind provides a generic infrastructure for supervising the execution of programs called "tools". This is done by providing a way to instrument programs in very precise ways, making it relatively easy to support activities such as dynamic error detection and profiling. The Valgrind distribution currently includes three tools: a memory error detectors, a cache (time) profiler and a heap (space) profiler.

Tags: Software Development: C Development, C++ Development, Profiling, Testing and QA, Implemented in: C, User Interface: Command Line, Role: Program, Scope: Utility, Works with: Running Programs

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  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: libc6-dbg
    GNU C Library: detached debugging symbols
  • rec: gdb
    The GNU Debugger
  • sug: alleyoop
    Front-end to the Valgrind memory checker
  • sug: kcachegrind
    visualisation tool for the Valgrind profiler
  • sug: valkyrie (>> 1.3.0)
    open-source graphical user interface for the Valgrind

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