Valgrind

Jul 20, 2023

Memory debugging and profiling tool

Valgrind is a system for debugging and profiling un*x programs. With the tools that come with Valgrind, you can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, avoiding hours of frustrating bug-hunting, making your programs more stable. You can also perform detailed profiling, to speed up and reduce memory use of your programs.

The Valgrind distribution includes 10 tools

  • memcheck, the primary tool, a memory error detector
  • helgrind and drd, thread error detectors
  • callgrind and cachegrind, execution and cache profiling tools
  • massif, a memory tracker
  • dhat, a memory content profiler
  • lackey, an example of using the framework
  • none, does no instumentation and can check that Valgrind runs correctly
  • exp-bbv, and experimental profiling tool using sampling

Valgrind was initially ported to FreeBSD by Doug Rabson.



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