valgrind? (was Fwd: [Bug 417004] python crashes when loading gnome bindings.)

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Mar 17, 2007, at 1:38 PM, Paul Beard wrote:
> Yes, I saw that. Does anyone know what valgrind does/how it works  
> and if there is something similar in the Darwin/MacPorts toolchain?  
> It doesn't build on Darwin as it requires a lot of integration with  
> the kernel of the host system.

It's a debugging and profiling tool.

I think you do do some (but probably not all) of the memory checks  
with other tools on Mac OS X (it looks like they were asking you to  
run the program with valgrind's memory checks). Setting  
MallocPreScribble, MallocScribble, MallocBadFreeAbort,  
MallocStackLogging, running leaks, and maybe malloc_history (see the  
malloc(), leaks, and malloc_history man pages) should approximate  
what it seems like they are looking for.

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