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| author | Kyle Guinn <elyk03@gmail.com> | 2010-05-11 14:05:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2010-05-11 14:05:53 +0200 |
| commit | 7fb9994f11f9b577484c5e159ea6274421d75219 (patch) | |
| tree | 00a91f8c3d3b39a2ca16d6c0f26de9842ebac4dc /development/valgrind/README | |
| parent | 16cd6a2182f246fba3441bc0e430516662ede5d9 (diff) | |
development/valgrind: Initial import
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diff --git a/development/valgrind/README b/development/valgrind/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..c81f693e0f7a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/development/valgrind/README @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Valgrind is an award-winning suite of tools for debugging and profiling Linux +programs. With the tools that come with Valgrind, you can automatically detect +many memory management and threading bugs, avoiding hours of frustrating +bug-hunting, making your programs more stable. You can also perform detailed +profiling, to speed up and reduce memory use of your programs. + +The Valgrind distribution currently includes four tools: a memory error +detector, a cache (time) profiler, a call-graph profiler, and a heap (space) +profiler. It runs on the following platforms: X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, +PPC32/Linux, PPC64/Linux. + |