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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. If you're worried about threading/memory bugs by adam_megacz · · Score: 1, Redundant


    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).