Valgrind 1.0.0 Released

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."

Comments

What's the fun in that?

[G0SP0DAR]

This may be a practical tool in some respects, but I would not have so much respect for someone who depended on that to have any working code. As the old saying goes, "real programmers read core dumps."

If you're worried about threading/memory bugs

[adam_megacz]

You could write your code in Java (shuder!), and then use the Java frontend to GCC to compile it down to a blazingly fast 100% native-code binary. And you can do it all without ever using non-free software (unlike Sun's compilers/JVMs).