[geeks] Glowing Review: Rational Purify

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Jun 13, 2008, at 09:28 , Joshua Boyd wrote:

> On Jun 13, 2008, at 1:24 AM, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>>
>>
>> If you write code for a living and can afford $830 (for Win32,
>> $2620 for
>> Unix), the amount of time this tool will save you is incredible.
>>
>> Disclaimer: I don't work for IBM or own any IBM stock, but I do miss
>> running AIX on POWER.
>>
>
> Is this code strictly Windows?  If it were possible it would be
> really cool to know if valgrind would have found the problems, but
> valgrind is pretty much linux only.

The problem here is that a lot of people who could use Purify cannot  
afford it.

valgrind... it only runs on Linux as far as I can see, which pretty  
much limits how useful it is.

I assume these programs use OS specific features that limit their  
portability.

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