Monday, December 19, 2016

How to use Valgrind for debugging C/C++ program


Valgrind tool is used to for memory leaks, uninitialized memory, reading or writing to memory that has been freed, invalid access to memory(boundary conditions for the dynamic arrays), mismatched use of malloc/new/new[] with free/delete/delete[] , double free/delete.

How to use Valgrind:
>Compile the program with -g option (this option will add debugging symbols), so that we can see line numbers of the program when debugging

 $ g++ -o test -g test.cpp