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Valgrind coming to Mac

Apple employee Greg Parker has ported Valgrind to Mac, and plans to release his work soon after Leopard is released in October. He's been working on it for quite a while.

I'm excited about being able to use Valgrind on Mac. Valgrind's "Memcheck" is much better at catching dangling-pointer bugs and heap buffer-overflow bugs than simply watching for crashes (even with MallocScribble enabled). Running a fuzzer with Memcheck can reveal exploitable memory safety bugs that would not have triggered crashes otherwise.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 at 1:44 pm and is filed under Fuzzing, Mozilla. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “Valgrind coming to Mac”

  1. Robert O'Callahan Says:
    September 19th, 2007 at 3:16 pm

    And I’ll be able to port Chronicle to Mac too!