[geeks] Glowing Review: Rational Purify

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Jun 13, 2008, at 13:22 , Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> But, if you can't afford Purify (especially given what IBM charges for
> Unix-like platforms) and you can port your code to Linux, valgrind is
> not a bad second choice.

Unfortunately, every time I'm unable to find memory errors on my own,  
it is precisely programs where porting is far too much work.

Kind of ironic...

Maybe what we need is a feature in all production OS that a valgrind  
or a Purify could hook into to help make the analysis part of the code  
portable.


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