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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Hello World newbie woes
From:       "Andrew Coles" <andrew_coles () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2004-04-03 19:21:30
Message-ID: 004b01c419b0$e0cce780$0400000a () parkle
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Hi Martin,

> What on earth is a 'Valgrind'?

http://valgrind.kde.org/ - In a nutshell valgrind is a simulation of the x86
processor in software; you run your program on it:

valgrind myprogram

and it will run as normal but on the virtual processor.  When it is running,
valgrind will see if your program is breaking any memory rules (using
uninitialised areas of memory, using deleted memory, deleting deleted
memory, memory leaks etc.) and will say so if it is, stating where the
errors have occurred.  It also can do lots of other thing (cache profiling)
but for debugging it's largely its memory-checking options that are a boon.

Hope that helps,

Andrew.

 
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