Valgrind

Markus Friedl markus at openbsd.org
Tue Jul 30 04:47:37 EST 2002


where is your valgrind report for openssh?

On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 10:27:48AM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/
> 
> 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 misuses of the POSIX pthreads API 
> 
> -- 
> Florin Andrei
> 
> "Some times are fuzzier than others." - Dan Farmer & Wietse Venema
> 
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