[Haifux] Lecture about valgrind

Muli Ben-Yehuda muli at il.ibm.com
Wed Jun 16 12:08:05 MSD 2010


On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:51:15AM +0300, Shachar Raindel wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have been fiddling with the insides of valgrind lately, and
> thought that other club members might also be interested to hear
> about how it works under the hood.
> 
> For these of you who haven't heard of valgrind yet, it is a dynamic
> binary translator, which pin-points common memory-related problems
> (most of the buffer overflows, using freed memory block, double
> free, using uninitialized variables, memory leaks, etc.).
> 
> If there is enough interest, I will probably be able to get a few
> slides together and talk about it for a bit (read - 2 hours).

+1 from me.

Cheers,
Muli



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