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Posted Jul 10, 2003 7:57 UTC (Thu) by oever (subscriber, #987)
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The company uses a method of automated testing that tests for memory leaks, NULL pointer dereferences, bad deallocations, out of bounds array access and/or uninitialized variables.
I guess they're using the excellent free software tool valgrind.


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valgrind

Posted Jul 10, 2003 16:36 UTC (Thu) by cpeterso (subscriber, #305) [Link]

no. Reasoning does static code analysis (like Lint). Valgrind is does runtime analysis (like Purify).

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