Valgrind FOR LINUX

Valgrind is an open source application that provides software developers with one of the best and most used tools for automatic discovery of memory threading and management bugs on their projects. In other words, it can be used to greatly speed up your programs. It’s a command-line application that runs only on the Linux console or an X11 terminal emulator.

Key Features:

• Memory error detector


• Heap profiler


• Branch-prediction and cache profiler


• Thread error detectors


• Call-graph generating branch-prediction and cache profiler

Valgrind comes with several experimental tools, such as a global and stack array overrun detector, SimPoint basic block vector generator, and a second heap profiler. The application supports a wide range of programs written in different programming languages, such as C, C++, Python, Perl, Java, Fortran, assembly code, and many others.

Utilities:

• Memcheck


• Addrcheck


• Cachegrind


• Callgrind


• None


• Massif


• Exp-sgcheck


• Exp-bbv


• Exp-dhat


• Helgrind


• DRD

Valgrind runs well on the GNU/Linux, Android, and Mac OS X operating systems. Supported architectures include x86, amd64, ARM, PPC32, PPC64, s390x, MIPS32, MIPS64, and ARM. The program can be downloaded as a source archive from the dedicated section above, which can be configured, compiled, and installed on any Linux-based operating system.

Users can also install Valgrind directly from the default software repositories of their Linux distributions, including Debian, Red Hat, Mandriva, openSUSE, Arch Linux, Slackware, Gentoo, and others. In conclusion, Valgrind is a unique application that should be used by any software developer to speed up their programs and eliminate nasty memory bugs and leaks.

It’s an award-winning software that has been successfully used for research purposes at MIT, Cambridge, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, UC Santa Barbara, Cornell, and many other universities around the world.