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| author |   Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org> | 2003-08-09 15:27:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org> | 2003-08-09 15:27:59 +0000 |
| commit | ca002bf65b4ad22d82079a804fd829247fbca0bb (patch) | |
| tree | 391da2ae0789fee50e0748a8280d5ccdd1a1066c /dev-util/valgrind/metadata.xml | |
| parent | version bump Bug 24640, added a metadata.xml herd=no-herd (diff) | |
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version bump Bug 24640, added a metadata.xml herd=no-herd
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diff --git a/dev-util/valgrind/metadata.xml b/dev-util/valgrind/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..125392b41471 --- /dev/null +++ b/dev-util/valgrind/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> +<pkgmetadata> + <herd>no-herd</herd> + <maintainer> + <email>solar@gentoo.org</email> + <description>Interim Maintainer</description> + </maintainer> +<longdescription> +Valgrind is a GPL'd tool to help you find memory-management problems +in your programs. When a program is run under Valgrind's supervision, +all reads and writes of memory are checked, and calls to +malloc/new/free/delete are intercepted. As a result, Valgrind can +detect problems such as + +- Use of uninitialised memory +- Reading/writing memory after it has been free'd +- Reading/writing off the end of malloc'd blocks +- Reading/writing inappropriate areas on the stack +- Memory leaks -- where pointers to malloc'd blocks are lost forever +- Passing of uninitialised and/or unaddressible memory to system calls +- Mismatched use of malloc/new/new [] vs free/delete/delete [] +- Some abuses of the POSIX Pthreads API +</longdescription> +</pkgmetadata> |