Recommendations for C++ sourcecode analysis tools

[Jerry Feldman]

On Thursday 23 March 2006 9:52 am, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> Jerry Feldman writes:
> > I agree that Valgrind is an excellent tool. However Rational's (IBM's)
> > Purify Plus puts it to shame for a mere $10,000.
>
> I've found bugs with Valgrind that Purify never found.
>
> I've found bugs with Purify that Valgrind never found.
>
>
> For serious development, I'd make sure I had both.  I'd also evaluate
> Purify on my desired development platform too -- when I last evaluated
> Purify on Linux it was barely usable.  Valgrind just worked on Linux.
> Purify on Solaris just worked too, so I used it there.
I have not used Purify on Linux. It adds a full 20% to the memory usage of 
your program plus the additional instrumentation, such that Purified code 
tends to be huge. 

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