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Re: programming tools



On Tuesday 26 April 2005 20:25, Joris Huizer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering, is there a tool (under linux) to find memory leaks?

There are quite a few options for that.  apt-cache search "memory leak" :)

> Also, is there a way to find what piece of code is running most of the
> time in a program?

This is called "profiling".  apt-cache search profile, or apt-cache search 
profiling :)

> Just to try and find some clues about wine's behavior (for the latter,
> so much X activity sometimes) and out of curiosity

You might also look into strace and/or ltrace for this.

I've heard good things about valgrind (which others suggested), but I haven't 
tried it personally, since it's not available on PowerPC yet :(

-- 
Lee.



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