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Platforms supported

X86-64 PowerPC ARMv7 Smartphones Android

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Tools

Instrumentation C++ allocators C memory allocator Off-by-one errors File descriptors

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History and development

Valhalla Norse mythology Heimdall Julian Seward Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award

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Overview

Programming tool Memory debugging Memory leak Profiling Freely licensed

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Developer: Valgrind Development Team
License: GNU General Public License version 3
Operating system: Linux FreeBSD Solaris macOS Android
Original authors: Julian Seward, Nicholas Nethercote
Platform: x86, x86-64, ARM, MIPS, POWER, RISC-V, s390x
Release: 27 July 2002

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Overview

Programming tool
Memory debugging Memory debugger
Memory leak
Profiling Profiling (computer programming)
Freely licensed Free software
Linux
X86
Virtual machine
Just-in-time compilation
Dynamic recompilation
Processor Central processing unit
Intermediate representation
Static single assignment form
Binary code
GDB GNU Debugger

Tools

Instrumentation Instrumentation (computer programming)
C++ allocators New and delete (C++)
C memory allocator C dynamic memory allocation
Off-by-one errors Off-by-one error
File descriptors File descriptor
POSIX
Segmentation fault
Heap Dynamic memory allocation
GUI Graphical user interface
Race conditions Race condition
Multithreaded code Thread (computing)
Cache CPU cache
Call graph

Platforms supported

X86-64
PowerPC
ARMv7 ARM architecture family
Smartphones Smartphone
Android Android (operating system)
Solaris Solaris (operating system)
OS X MacOS
FreeBSD
MIPS64 MIPS architecture
MIPS32
S390x
POWER8
Power ISA 2.07 Power ISA
AVX2 Advanced Vector Extensions
RISC-V
Unix-like
OpenBSD
NetBSD
DragonFly BSD

History and development

Limitations of Memcheck

Certain types of stack errors Buffer overflow
Vulnerable Vulnerability (computing)
Stack smashing exploit Stack buffer overflow

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Triples106

Avg. degree1.97

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Valgrind

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related to References · 26

Valgrind → ACM, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Advanced Debugging, April, Archived, August, GNU/Linux, ISBN, Josef, Julian, June, March, Nethercote, Network Theory Ltd, Nicholas, OCLC, OL, Proceedings, Profiling, Retrieved

related to Platforms supported · 23

Valgrind → ARM/Android, ARMv7, As, Decimal Floating Point, FreeBSD, From, Hardware Transactional Memory, HLE, Intel AVX2, Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions, Linux, MIPS DSP ASE, MIPS32, MIPS64, OS, POWER, Power ISA, POWER8, PowerPC, RTM

related to Other tools · 17

Valgrind → Addrcheck, Cachegrind, Callgrind, CPU, DHAT, DRD, GUI, GUI KCacheGrind, Helgrind, In, Josef Weidendorfer, KCacheGrind, Massif, Memcheck, None, Since Valgrind, The

related to history · 7

Valgrind → During, Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award, Heimdall, Julian Seward, Norse, The, Valhalla

related to overview · 7

Valgrind → After, CPUs, GDB, Instead, IR, It, Nothing

related to Memcheck · 6

Valgrind → As, In, Memcheck, The, There, This

related to Core errors · 4

Valgrind → Checking, Part, The, Valgrind's

related to Limitations of Memcheck · 3

Valgrind → In, Memcheck, The

Developer · 1

Valgrind → Valgrind Development Team

License · 1

Valgrind → GNU General Public License version 3

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memcheck memory tool version code linux added errors tools support detect use file debugging x86 also program run since dynamic

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Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Valgrind	Developer	Valgrind Development Team	1.00	infobox
Valgrind	License	GNU General Public License version 3	1.00	infobox
Valgrind	Operating system	Linux FreeBSD Solaris macOS Android	1.00	infobox
Valgrind	Original authors	Julian Seward, Nicholas Nethercote	1.00	infobox
Valgrind	Platform	x86, x86-64, ARM, MIPS, POWER, RISC-V, s390x	1.00	infobox
Valgrind	Release	27 July 2002	1.00	infobox
Valgrind	Repository	sourceware.org/git/valgrind.git	1.00	infobox
Valgrind	Stable release	3.27.0 / 20 April 2026	1.00	infobox
Valgrind	Type	Profiler, Memory debugger	1.00	infobox
Valgrind	Website	www.valgrind.org	1.00	infobox
Valgrind	Written in	C	1.00	infobox
checkers	instance of	but has since evolved to become a generic framework for creating dynamic analysis tools	0.80	text

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