Linux Tools Project/Valgrind/User Guide

Overview

Valgrind is a powerful and widely used memory profiling tool suite. (http://www.valgrind.org)
This project aims to provide a useful integration of Valgrind tools with your Eclipse projects.
Currently Memcheck, Massif and Cachegrind are supported.
Valgrind 3.3.0 or greater is required.

Add the update site (see: http://www.eclipse.org/linuxtools/downloads.php for details)
Install Valgrind Integration

Memcheck discovers memory management problems in your program. (http://www.valgrind.org/docs/manual/mc-manual.html)
It is the default tool.
The launch shortcut can create a configuration with default options for your program.
- Same as running valgrind ./myprog from the command line.
- After a configuration has already been created, the launch shortcut will launch your most recently used configuration.
Any memory management errors reported by Valgrind are listed in the Valgrind view, which should appear automatically.
- Each error has a stack trace.
- If the source can be resolved, double-clicking on the stack frame will open an editor to its line.
View and modify your profile configuration by selecting "Profile Configurations".
- All Valgrind related configuration options can be changed from the Valgrind Options tab.
- General options and Suppressions are Valgrind core options and are not related to the tool being run.
- Details on Memcheck suppressions can be found here.
- Specific Memcheck options can also be configured.