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Valgrind

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Description
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.
Home Page: http://valgrind.org/
Interface: Command Line
Associated Programs
alleyoop Front-end to the Valgrind memory checker
gdb The GNU Debugger
KCacheGrind visualisation tool for the Valgrind profiler
libc6-dbg GNU C Library: Libraries with debugging symbols
valgrind-callgrind call-graph skin for valgrind
Available deb Repositories (how-to add a respository)
Debian 32-bit 64-bit
sarge 1:2.4.0-2
sarge-backports 1:3.2.0-1bpo1
etch 1:3.2.1-1 1:3.2.1-1
lenny 1:3.3.1-2
sid 1:3.3.1-2 1:3.3.1-2

Ubuntu 32-bit 64-bit
dapper 1:3.1.0-2.1ubuntu3 1:3.1.0-2.1ubuntu3
feisty 1:3.2.1-1ubuntu2 1:3.2.1-1ubuntu2
gutsy 1:3.2.3-2ubuntu3 1:3.2.3-2ubuntu3
hardy 1:3.3.0-1ubuntu1
intrepid 1:3.3.1-2ubuntu1 1:3.3.1-2ubuntu1

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Available rpm Repositories
OpenSUSE 32-bit 64-bit
10.1 3.1.1-6 3.1.1-7
10.2 3.2.1-21 3.2.1-21
10.3 3.2.3-57 3.2.3-57
11.0 3.3.0-43.1 3.3.0-43.1

PCLinuxOS 32-bit
2007 3.2.0-3pclos2007

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