Valgrind & Andvare
June 24, 2007 3:06 am Blogroll, GNOME, General, PyGTK, PythonYesterday I on a bus ride from São Paulo I had the opportunity to see some of the developments tools available on OSX. Shark and mallocdebug are quite interesting, bling-bling for the developer masses.
When I woke up this morning I realized that it shouldn’t be too difficult to do something similar on top of valgrind.
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It’s quite useful already, it groups all the leaks by the topmost function which is a bit easier to follow than the output valgrind usually gives us.
You can find a tarball here if you want to play around with it.
Update: I uploaded a bzr branch to launchpad:
June 24th, 2007 at 04:16
You rock Johan!
June 24th, 2007 at 06:27
Wow ! Can you integrate this in Anjuta ?
Keep up the good work !
Étienne.
June 24th, 2007 at 09:58
Could you set up a public repository with the DSCM of your choice?
I’m very interested in using something similar for doing reports when running unittests with Check and maybe I will look into stealing some of your code.
June 24th, 2007 at 11:19
Nice. Looks very useful.
June 24th, 2007 at 11:47
Wouldn’t it be good to share the efforts with Alleyoop (http://alleyoop.sourceforge.net/)
It’s another Valgrind front-end for gnome.
Last release is near 1 year old, so perhaps it is a dead project
Thanks for starting that one, it looks good.
Bye
Stéphane
June 24th, 2007 at 12:04
Gustavo & Philip: Thanks!
bersace: I don’t really use Anjuta, but feel free to integrate it yourself, it shouldn’t be that difficult, just run andvare -s program args.
Emanuele: I uploaded a bzr repo to launchpad and updated the blog entry to tell where you can find it.
Stéphane: Alleyoop is written in C, I wouldn’t dream of writing a program in C.
June 24th, 2007 at 13:27
If you are interested to get Andvare package in Ubuntu, do contact me
Good work ^_^
June 25th, 2007 at 06:38
You can put releases on Launchpad also: https://launchpad.net/andvare/+download