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Linux Tools Project/Valgrind/User Guide
Overview
- Valgrind is a powerful and widely used memory profiling tool suite.
- This project aims to provide a useful integration of Valgrind tools with your Eclipse projects.
- Currently Memcheck, Massif and Cachegrind are supported.
Installing
- Add the update site (see: http://www.eclipse.org/linuxtools/downloads.php for details)
- Install Valgrind Integration
Using Memcheck
- Link to valgrind.org doc
- Launch Shortcut
- Interpreting Output
- Interactivity
- Config Options
Using Massif
- Link to valgrind.org doc
- Switching tool
- Interpreting Output
- Table viewer
- Interactivity
- Tree viewer
- Interactivity
- Chart
- Interactivity
- Table viewer
- Config Options
Using Cachegrind
- Link to valgrind.org doc
- Switching tool
- Interpreting Output
- Interactivity
Special Cases
- Handling program errors
- Handling Valgrind config errors