A memory debugger is a debugger for finding software memory problems such as memory leaks and buffer overflows. These are due to bugs related to the allocation...
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A debugger is a computer program used to test and debug other programs (the "target" programs). Common features of debuggers include the ability to run...
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breakpoints, and change values in memory. The term debugger can also refer to the person who is doing the debugging. Generally, high-level programming...
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and HTML DOM debugger drgn - A scriptable debugger for Linux, from Meta Dr. Memory — a DynamoRIO-based memory debugger Dynamic debugging technique (DDT)...
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PurifyPlus (redirect from Purify (debugger))
PurifyPlus is a memory debugger program used by software developers to detect memory access errors in programs, especially those written in C or C++. It...
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Dmalloc (category Free memory debuggers)
find memory leaks, off-by-one errors, and usage of invalid addresses in some library functions calls. Memory debugger § List of memory debugging tools...
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Insure++ (category Memory management software)
Insure++ is a memory debugger computer program, used by software developers to detect various errors in programs written in C and C++. It is made by Parasoft...
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Valgrind (category Free memory debuggers)
tool for memory debugging, memory leak detection, and profiling. Valgrind was originally designed to be a freely licensed memory debugging tool for Linux...
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This is a comparison of debuggers: computer programs that are used to test and debug other programs. List of debuggers "TotalView 8.15.10 Platforms and...
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The GNU Debugger (GDB) is a portable debugger that runs on many Unix-like systems and works for many programming languages, including Ada, Assembly, C...
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Electric Fence (category Free memory debuggers)
physical barrier, see electric fence. Electric Fence (or eFence) is a memory debugger written by Bruce Perens. It consists of a library which programmers...
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Therefore, a leak would occur. */ } Buffer overflow Memory management Memory debugger Plumbr is a popular memory leak detection tool for applications running...
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extension which provides debugging and profiling capabilities. Performance analysis Memory debugger (includes list of memory profilers) "CodeXL". Archived...
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line-oriented debugger DEBUG.EXE is an external command in operating systems such as DOS, OS/2 and Windows (only in 16-bit/32-bit versions). DEBUG can act as...
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Mtrace (category Free memory management software)
mtrace is the memory debugger included in the GNU C Library. Note that mtrace tool works only with single threaded applications. In a multithreaded application...
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the malloc library. Buffer overflow Memory debugger Memory protection Page size Variable-length array 7.20.3 Memory management functions (PDF). ISO/IEC...
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combines intermediate build files into an executable file Memory debugger – Software memory problem finder Minifier – Removal of unnecessary characters...
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debugger is a debugger present in some operating system kernels to ease debugging and kernel development by the kernel developers. A kernel debugger might...
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Memwatch (category Free memory management software)
diagnose memory leaks, it can also be used to analyze a program's memory usage from its provided logging facilities. Memwatch differs from most debugging software...
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Heisenbug (category Debugging)
debugger. This is particularly true when the behavior involves interaction with an entity not under the control of a debugger, such as when debugging...
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(1999), a tool for locating the sources of D-cache misses Valgrind, a memory debugger July 2006 – Julian Seward won a Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for...
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MacsBug (category Debuggers)
language/machine-level) debugger for the classic Mac OS operating system. MacsBug is an acronym for Motorola Advanced Computer Systems Debugger, as opposed to...
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heap memory management. Many memory debuggers such as Purify, Valgrind, Insure++, Parasoft C/C++test, AddressSanitizer are available to detect memory corruption...
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Intel Inspector (category Memory management software)
error and places a debugger breakpoint at the problematic code location, allowing the user to investigate the details in a debugger. The tool also detects...
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Coverity, which offers static memory analysis for C. DieHard, its redesign DieHarder, and the Allinea Distributed Debugging Tool are special heap allocators...
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Visual Studio (redirect from Visual Studio Debugger)
as code refactoring. The integrated debugger works as both a source-level debugger and as a machine-level debugger. Other built-in tools include a code...
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and buffer overflow. Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Link rot Memory debugger Wild branch "Warning Options - Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)"...
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caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years. Memory debugger Zero page "CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference". MITRE. Tony Hoare (2009-08-25)...
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DynamoRIO (redirect from Dr. Memory)
memory debugger built on DynamoRIO and released under an LGPL license. Dr. Memory monitors memory allocations and memory accesses using shadow memory...
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Core dump (redirect from Memory dump)
did not support attaching debuggers to running processes, so core dumps were necessary to run a debugger on a process's memory contents. Core dumps can...
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