Valgrind Software Quick Start Manual page 9

Valgrind User Manual
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. An Overview of Valgrind
1.2. How to navigate this manual
2. Using and understanding the Valgrind core
2.1. What Valgrind does with your program
2.2. Getting started
2.3. The Commentary
2.4. Reporting of errors
2.5. Suppressing errors
2.6. Core Command-line Options
2.6.1. Tool-selection Option
2.6.2. Basic Options
2.6.3. Error-related Options
2.6.4. malloc-related Options
2.6.5. Uncommon Options
2.6.6. Debugging Options
2.6.7. Setting Default Options
2.7. Support for Threads
2.7.1. Scheduling and Multi-Thread Performance
2.8. Handling of Signals
2.9. Building and Installing Valgrind
2.10. If You Have Problems
2.11. Limitations
2.12. An Example Run
2.13. Warning Messages You Might See
3. Using and understanding the Valgrind core: Advanced Topics
3.1. The Client Request mechanism
3.2. Debugging your program using Valgrind gdbserver and GDB
3.2.1. Quick Start: debugging in 3 steps
3.2.2. Valgrind gdbserver overall organisation
3.2.3. Connecting GDB to a Valgrind gdbserver
3.2.4. Connecting to an Android gdbserver
3.2.5. Monitor command handling by the Valgrind gdbserver
3.2.6. Valgrind gdbserver thread information
3.2.7. Examining and modifying Valgrind shadow registers
3.2.8. Limitations of the Valgrind gdbserver
3.2.9. vgdb command line options
3.2.10. Valgrind monitor commands
3.3. Function wrapping
3.3.1. A Simple Example
3.3.2. Wrapping Specifications
3.3.3. Wrapping Semantics
3.3.4. Debugging
3.3.5. Limitations - control flow
3.3.6. Limitations - original function signatures
3.3.7. Examples
4. Memcheck: a memory error detector
4.1. Overview
4.2. Explanation of error messages from Memcheck
4.2.1. Illegal read / Illegal write errors
4.2.2. Use of uninitialised values
4.2.3. Use of uninitialised or unaddressable values in system calls
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