Package valgrind: Information
Source package: valgrind
Version: 3.8.1-alt2
Build time: Mar 25, 2013, 04:21 PM
Category: Development/Other
Report package bugHome 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 APIList of RPM packages built from this SRPM:
valgrind (x86_64, i586)
valgrind-debuginfo (x86_64, i586)
valgrind-devel (x86_64, i586)
valgrind-tool-devel (x86_64, i586)
valgrind (x86_64, i586)
valgrind-debuginfo (x86_64, i586)
valgrind-devel (x86_64, i586)
valgrind-tool-devel (x86_64, i586)
Maintainer: Dmitry V. Levin
Last changed
March 25, 2013 Dmitry V. Levin 3.8.1-alt2
- Fixed build with glibc 2.17.
Oct. 3, 2012 Dmitry V. Levin 3.8.1-alt1
- Updated to 3.8.1. - Merged with valgrind-3.8.1-2 from Fedora.
June 18, 2012 Dmitry V. Levin 3.7.0-alt1
- Updated to 3.7.0 release (closes: #27411). - Backported upstream build fixes. - Merged with Fedora valgrind-3.7.0-4 (by legion@).