Valgrind is a tool that helps you find memory management problems in programs. This release adds improved SSE/SSE2 support, fixes for some minor bugs, and improved support for SuSE 9 and the Red Hat “Severn” beta. There are front-ends for it, available for both KDE and Gnome.
Valgrind 2.0.0 Released
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Valgrind is among those tools that are necessary to exist in the toolbox of any c programmer. Good to see it has been improved and is being actively maintained!
Looks interesting.
“Improved support for SuSE 9.0”
Oh, could that be why it seg faults whenever I’ve tried to use it since upgrading to SuSE 9.0? In that case I look forward to it appearing in the apt repositories as I miss using it, although not enough to be bothered to figure out why it was broke mind..
Valgrind rocks. I use it all the time and I recommend all C programmers to use it. Don’t take my word for it try it on your own project.
I think that this program is just superb. I use it to trace memory leaks in my C code and it never stopped to amaze me. I did have some issues with the Redhat kernel and the way they back ported the 2.6 threads; I hope this is fixed.
-Nadav