From LQWiki

valgrind is a debugging program that can be used to trace all kinds of memory allocation errors, like memory leaks.

Example Usage

The following will run the program "a.out" and check it for memory errors:

$valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full -v a.out

See also

• Debuggers for a list of debuggers.

External links

• Valgrind Homepage