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- From: alan@jade.uucp (Alan Covington)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Purify
- Message-ID: <ALAN.92Sep11094556@jsi-bwc.jade.uucp>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 16:45:56 GMT
- References: <1992Sep5.032433.11679@cbnewsk.cb.att.com><4960@sumax.seattleu.edu><542@sadis01.sa.aflc.af.mil>
- <9209102354.AA05085@verbosa.ncd.com> <etxtms.716196562@solsta-c>
- Sender: alan@jade.ab.ca (Alan Covington)
- Organization: Jade Simulations International Corp., Calgary, AB, Canada
- Lines: 26
- In-Reply-To: etxtms@solsta.ericsson.se's message of Fri, 11 Sep 1992 07: 29:22 GMT
-
- In article <etxtms.716196562@solsta-c> etxtms@solsta.ericsson.se (Thomas Bjork TX/DKG) writes:
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- Purify does two things.
-
- 1) It traces memory leaks.
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- 2) It gives warnings when accessing uninitialized memory.
-
- It also checks for access to memory that is not allocated to the
- program, has (limited) checks for freeing unallocated memory and has
- watchpoints that sound useful. (I haven't used the watchpoints yet,
- although I can think of some errors we have had where they would have
- been useful.)
-
- The product is solid, easy to use and very useful. We have found many
- errors, some that had been with us for years. The memory allocation
- usage dump has pointed to way to several storage optimizations that
- have halved the amount of memory being used by a large program.
-
- Alan - no affiliation to Pure Software, just a happy user
- --
- Alan Covington, Jade Simulations International Corp., Calgary, Alta.
- alan@jade.ab.ca
- --
- Alan Covington, Jade Simulations International Corp., Calgary, Alta.
- alan@jade.ab.ca
-