Valgrind Documentation

Valgrind Technical Documentation

Release 3.4.0 2 January 2009

Copyright © 2000-2009 Valgrind Developers

Email: valgrind@valgrind.org

Table of Contents

1. The Design and Implementation of Valgrind

2. Writing a New Valgrind Tool

2.1. Introduction

2.1.1. Tools

2.2. Writing a Tool

2.2.1. How tools work
2.2.2. Getting the code
2.2.3. Getting started
2.2.4. Writing the code
2.2.5. Initialisation
2.2.6. Instrumentation
2.2.7. Finalisation
2.2.8. Other Important Information
2.2.9. Words of Advice

2.3. Advanced Topics

2.3.1. Suppressions
2.3.2. Documentation
2.3.3. Regression Tests
2.3.4. Profiling
2.3.5. Other Makefile Hackery
2.3.6. Core/tool Interface Versions

2.4. Final Words

3. Callgrind Format Specification

3.1. Overview

3.1.1. Basic Structure
3.1.2. Simple Example
3.1.3. Associations
3.1.4. Extended Example
3.1.5. Name Compression
3.1.6. Subposition Compression
3.1.7. Miscellaneous

3.2. Reference

3.2.1. Grammar
3.2.2. Description of Header Lines
3.2.3. Description of Body Lines

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