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 or debugging tool is a computer program used to test and debug other programs (the "target" program). The main use of a debugger is 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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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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This is a list of debuggers: computer programs that are used to test and debug other programs. Advanced Debugger — an older UNIX debugger dating back to...
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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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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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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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extension which provides debugging and profiling capabilities. Performance analysis Memory debugger (includes list of memory profilers) "CodeXL". Archived...
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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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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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Dmalloc (category Free memory debuggers)
Dmalloc is a C memory debugger library written by Gray Watson to assist programmers in finding a variety of dynamic memory allocation mistakes. It replaces...
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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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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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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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example, a debugger allows a programmer to extract information about a running program in terms of the source language used to program it. The debugger can compute...
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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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Arm DDT (redirect from Streamline Distributed Debugging Tool)
features memory debugging which detect memory leaks, or reading and writing beyond the bounds of arrays. It was the first debugger to be able to debug petascale...
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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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(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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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. One thread could temporarily...
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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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and it will show the guilty code in the debugger. Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Link rot Memory debugger Wild branch "Warning Options - Using the...
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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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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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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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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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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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caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years. Memory debugger Zero page "CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference". MITRE. ISO/IEC 9899...
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Code sanitizer (category Free memory debuggers)
AddressSanitizer (or ASan) of 2012, which uses directly mapped shadow memory to detect memory corruption such as buffer overflows or accesses to a dangling pointer...
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