Valgrind HOWTO

Deepak P.


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Sandeep S.


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24 August 2002

Revision History
Revision 1.12002-09-15Revised by: tab
Converted to XML 4.1.2, added gfdl, reviewed, author revisions
Revision 1.02002-08-24Revised by: SS
Initial release

This document is a guide to Valgrind, the malloc debugger. Valgrind 1.0.0 is described.

Table of Contents
1. Background
2. Introduction
2.1. Purpose
2.2. Acknowledgments
2.3. Copyright and Distribution Policy
2.4. Feedback and Corrections
3. Getting it Installed
3.1. Getting Valgrind
3.2. Installing
4. A Closer View
4.1. Why Valgrind?
4.2. Usage
4.3. Limitations and Dependencies of Valgrind.
5. Let's Go Deeper
5.1. How Valgrind Tracks Validity of Each Byte
5.2. Cache Profiling
6. Concluding Remarks
7. References
A. GNU Free Documentation License
A.1. PREAMBLE
A.2. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
A.3. VERBATIM COPYING
A.4. COPYING IN QUANTITY
A.5. MODIFICATIONS
A.6. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
A.7. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
A.8. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
A.9. TRANSLATION
A.10. TERMINATION
A.11. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
A.12. How to use this License for your documents
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