Bug#135718: ITP: valgrind -- a memory debugger for x86-linux

[Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille@chepelov.org>]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-02-25
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : valgrind
  Version         : 0.0.0.20020221
  Upstream Author : Julian Seward <jseward@acm.org>
* URL             : http://devel-home.kde.org/~sewardj/
* License         : GPL
  Description     : a memory debugger for x86-linux

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 []

Valgrind can debug more or less any dynamically-linked ELF Linux x86
executable, without modification, recompilation, or anything.


-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux muscat 2.4.18-pre9 #1 mer fév 13 22:37:06 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro