May 18, 2012

New article: Dynamic Program Analysis on Linux Using Valgrind

Did you have any memory problems with your applications recently? Wild accesses, improperly initialized variables, memory leaks, illegal frees etc sounds familiar? Then you should take a look at valgrind. It's now available for Linux on System z as well in SLES10 SP4, RHEL 6.1 (version 3.6) and SLES11 SP2 (version 3.7).
There is now an in depth article for usage on Linux on System z in the latest zJournal. Besides all the description it also has an example which shows you the usage of this powerful tool.