Valgrind, version 2.1.0
This manual was last updated on 14 December 2003
jseward@acm.org,
njn25@cam.ac.uk
Copyright © 2000-2003 Julian Seward, Nick Nethercote
Valgrind is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version
2
An open-source tool for debugging and profiling Linux-x86 executables.
Contents of this manual
1.1
An overview of Valgrind
1.2
How to navigate this manual
1.2.1
For users migrating from valgrind-1.0.X
2.1
What it does with your program
2.2
Getting started
2.3
The commentary
2.4
Reporting of errors
2.5
Suppressing errors
2.6
Command-line flags for the Valgrind core
2.7
The Client Request mechanism
2.8
Support for POSIX pthreads
2.9
Handling of signals
2.10
Building and installing
2.11
If you have problems
2.12
Limitations
2.13
How it works -- a rough overview
2.14
An example run
The following is not part of the user manual. It describes how you can
write tools for Valgrind, in order to make new program supervision
tools.
The following are not part of the user manual. They describe internal
details of how Valgrind works. Reading them may rot your mind. You
have been warned.