Mastering C++ Programming

Debugging memory leaks with Valgrind

Valgrind is a collection of open source C/C++ debugging and profiling tools for the Unix and Linux platforms. The collection of tools that Valgrind supports are as follows:

• Cachegrind: This is the cache profiler
• Callgrind: This works in a similar manner to the cache profiler but supports the caller-callee sequence
• Helgrind: This helps in detecting thread synchronization issues
• DRD: This is the thread error detector
• Massif: This is the heap profiler
• Lackey: This provides basic performance-related statistics and measurements about your application
• exp-sgcheck: This detects stack overruns; it is generally useful in finding issues that Memcheck can't find
• exp-bbv: This is useful for computer architecture ...