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Valgrind
Well-known tool for finding errors of work with memory. An instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools. The Valgrind tools can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, and profile your programs in detail.
| First released | 2000 |
| Developed by | Julian Seward |
| Latest stable version | 3 |
| Open-source | Not defined |
Interesting facts
Valgrind has modular architecture and consists from kernel, that perform processor emulation, and modules, that collect and analyze information, obtained from the kernel during execution of analyzed code.