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Valgrind 1.0.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the effortless-only-a-figure-of-speech dept.

Anonymous Lazy Boy writes "Yesterday saw the official release of Valgrind 1.0.0. Valgrind is a C/C++ programmer's dream come true: effortless memory allocation checking, uninitialized memory access, leaks etc. Purify for Linux has arrived, only better: contrary to its commercial (non-Linux) sibling, checking is performed directly on the executable, no re-linking necessary. The technology behind Valgrind is highly fascinating and explained down to the very gory details in the documentation."

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  1. recursivity by alvi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hum,

    [chicken]~> vagrind valgrind

    seems to work ok. But valgrinding a valgrinded valgrind causes some ugly errors and asks for a bug report. Well, I know this isn't fair. :)

    Anyways, this looks like a really sweet tool.

  2. Re:What's the fun in that? by MisterBlister · · Score: 4, Funny
    In the 80's, we programmed in C, and debugged with printf statements. In the 90's, we programmed in C++, and debugged with >>.

    So you *are* stupid after all!

  3. Re:If you're worried about threading/memory bugs by adam_megacz · · Score: 5, Funny

    you obviously have no idea what you're talking about

    $ grep Megacz /usr/src/gcc-3.1/MAINTAINERS

    Adam Megacz adam@xwt.org

    Yeah, I probably know absolutely nothing about gcj...