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    Tutorial 3: Valgrind: By: Vajih Montaghami

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    This document is a tutorial on using Valgrind, an open-source memory debugging and profiling tool. It introduces Valgrind's main components like Memcheck for detecting memory errors. It provides instructions on installing Valgrind and using it to check for uninitialized memory usage, memory leaks, and other errors. Examples are given to demonstrate Valgrind's ability to detect outbound access, uninitialized variables, and memory leaks. Limitations in Valgrind's stack checking are also mentioned.

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    This document is a tutorial on using Valgrind, an open-source memory debugging and profiling tool. It introduces Valgrind's main components like Memcheck for detecting memory errors. It provides instructions on installing Valgrind and using it to check for uninitialized memory usage, memory leaks, and other errors. Examples are given to demonstrate Valgrind's ability to detect outbound access, uninitialized variables, and memory leaks. Limitations in Valgrind's stack checking are also mentioned.

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    This document is a tutorial on using Valgrind, an open-source memory debugging and profiling tool. It introduces Valgrind's main components like Memcheck for detecting memory errors. It provides instructions on installing Valgrind and using it to check for uninitialized memory usage, memory leaks, and other errors. Examples are given to demonstrate Valgrind's ability to detect outbound access, uninitialized variables, and memory leaks. Limitations in Valgrind's stack checking are also mentioned.

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    SE465/ECE453/CS447/CS647

    Tutorial 3: Valgrind
    By: Vajih Montaghami
    2012-02-17
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    vmontagh@uwaterloo.ca

    Introduction
    framework for building dynamic analysis tools Memcheck is a memory error detector, Cachegrind is a cache and branch- prediction profiler, Callgrind is a call-graph generating cache profiler, Helgrind, DRD are thread error detectors, Massif is a heap profiler, DHAT, SGcheck, BBV, ...
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    Memory checker?!
    Use of un-initialized memory, R/W memory after it has been free'd, R/W off the end of malloc'd blocks, R/W inappropriate areas on the stack, Memory leak: Somewhere, you call malloc but never call free, Mismatched use of malloc/new/new[] vs free/delete/delete[], Overlapping src and dst pointers in memcpy() and related functions.

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    1. http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/ 2. http://freshmeat.net/projects/valgrind/

    3.2. Installing Run Install and


    Uncompress, compile and install it:
    #tar xvfz valgrind1.0.0.tar.gz #cd valgrind1.0.0 #./configure #make #make install

    Mac, Linux:

    Add the path to your path variable. Now valgrind is ready to catch the bugs.

    Ubuntu:

    #apt-get install valgrind

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    Prepare to Check
    Compile by gcc or g++: -g: Debug Mode. -O0: Turn of the Optimization. Run by Valgrind:
    $ valgrind --leak-check=full -v --show-reachable=yes --track-origins=yes ./example
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    Example 1:Outbound Access

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    Example 2: Uninitialized Variables

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    Example 3: Memory leak

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    Limitation
    bounds checking on stack/static arrays checks programs dynamically

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    Reference
    valgrind.org Manual: valgrind.org/docs/manual/valgrind_manual.pdf HOWTO Manual: www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/
    other-formats/pdf/Valgrind-HOWTO.pdf

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