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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Debugging?
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On Saturday 10 April 2004 06:17, Lev Walkin wrote:
> Brandon Erhart wrote:
> > For Linux, I've seen valgrind (probably one of the best) as well as
> > several others. In the commercial arena, Rational's PURIFY and
> > Parasoft's INSURE++ work on every OS *but* BSD. Any particular
> > reason for this?
> >
> > Are there any debuggers out there for BSD that will detect the
> > heap/stack corruption!?
>
> Valgrind is available for FreeBSD.
>
> http://eirikn.kerneled.com/valgrind/

Or alternatively, a more up-to-date version (which the above is a 
snapshot of) at http://www.rabson.org/#valgrind.