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| <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
| <pkgmetadata> |
| <maintainer type="person"> |
| <email>blueness@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Anthony G. Basile</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| <longdescription> |
| Valgrind is a GPL'd tool to help you find memory-management problems |
| in your programs. When a program is run under Valgrind's supervision, |
| all reads and writes of memory are checked, and calls to |
| malloc/new/free/delete are intercepted. As a result, Valgrind can |
| detect problems such as |
| |
| - Use of uninitialised memory |
| - Reading/writing memory after it has been free'd |
| - Reading/writing off the end of malloc'd blocks |
| - Reading/writing inappropriate areas on the stack |
| - Memory leaks -- where pointers to malloc'd blocks are lost forever |
| - Passing of uninitialised and/or unaddressible memory to system calls |
| - Mismatched use of malloc/new/new [] vs free/delete/delete [] |
| - Some abuses of the POSIX Pthreads API |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |
