Package valgrind: Information

Source package: valgrind

Version: 3.6.1-alt3

Build time:  Dec 8, 2011, 03:55 AM

Category: Development/Other

Home page: http://www.valgrind.org/

License: GPLv2+

Summary: Valgrind, an open-source memory debugger for GNU/Linux

Description: 

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 []
    * Overlaps of arguments to strcpy() and related functions
    * Some abuses of the POSIX pthread API

List of rpms provided by this srpm:
valgrind (x86_64, i586)
valgrind-debuginfo (x86_64, i586)
valgrind-devel (x86_64, i586)
valgrind-tool-devel (x86_64, i586)

Maintainer: Dmitry V. Levin