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Re: valgrind-3.5.0 is available (Mac OS X support)
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Re: valgrind-3.5.0 is available (Mac OS X support)


  • Subject: Re: valgrind-3.5.0 is available (Mac OS X support)
  • From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:34:47 -0400
  • Organization: Rogue Research Inc.

On 8/21/09 11:44 AM, David Hoerl said:

>I had never even heard of valgrind until a few months ago, when a
>colleague told me of its wonders.
>
>I have used it many times in the past few months with C/C++ command
>line tools, and it's worked miracles.
>
>In regards to memory use, it monitors every malloc and free, and when
>your process finishes, it can output the call sequence of every
>unfreed object.

Have you also used Apple's GuardMalloc and Instruments?  Could you
comment on how they compare?  Does one find bugs the other cannot?
Other pros/cons?

(Alas, valgrind does not support 64 bit well, nor Obj-C garbage
collection, so I'm afraid it's unusable for me currently.)

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Sean McBride, B. Eng                 email@hidden
Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada


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