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

Contents 1 Example Usage 2 Related Commands 3 See also 4 External links

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

Related Commands

These all relate to running commands in an altered context.

• chroot - Confine the program to "jail".
• env - Change variables.
• nice - Change priority.
• nohup - Protect from hangups (modem) or network outages.
• stdbuf - Change buffering of standard I/O filestreams.
• su - Change user
• timeout - Limit the time.

• strace - Create a log of system calls.

See also

• Debuggers for a list of debuggers.

External links

• Valgrind Homepage