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diff --git a/development/valgrind/README b/development/valgrind/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c81f693e0f --- /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. + |