Re: Advanced Run-Time Error Checking Tool

["Andrew Morton" <morton@nortelnetworks.com>]

Dean,

The only commercial offering at this time is Insure++ from ParaSoft.  I
have no experience with this product and can't comment on its
usefulness.  ParaSoft do not supply evaluation licenses for Linux
because "we're the only suppliers of this sort of product for Linux". 
If you can make sense of that approach you're smarter than I.   I guess
you could get an eval license for Solaris.

Open source options are

1: Bruce Perens' ElectricFence which has very limited functionality.

2: GNU checker.  Checker has all the functionality which you need, but
it's rather broken at present.  I am working with the developer to get
checker working properly under Mandrake 6.0 (and, presumably, Redhat
6.x).  The version at http://www.gnu.org/software/checker/checker.html
is old.  You can pull the latest from CVS with

setenv CVSROOT :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.gnu.org:/gd/gnu/anoncvsroot
no password, repository: checker.

but I don't know if Tristan has integrated my patches yet.

What's your timeframe?  If you can wait a week or two I'll pester
Tristan to get a new release out.


The open source world needs checker.  Badly.  Right now we're scratching
our heads over a couple of Rational's patents (stupid ones) which
checker probably infringes.

"Dean N. Williams" wrote:
> 
> Dear Linux Testers,
> 
>     I am a Linux user that has converted from developing software on
>     Sun Solaris and SGI Irix Platforms to the Linux platform.
>     On the other Unix platforms, I used Rational Software's Purify
>     product to debug/detect memory leaks and other run-time errors.
> 
>     I have just found out that Rational Software does not support the
>     Linux platform.
> 
>     I am wondering what are the other software developers using to
>     detect run-time errors? Can you give me the top advanced run-time
>     error detection tools like Purify that I can use in the Linux C/C++
>     (possibly FORTRAN 90/95) environments?
> 
>     Thanks in advance for all your help.
> 
> Best Regards,
>     Dean N. Williams
> 
> --
> Dean N. Williams
> Computer Scientist/Computation Group Leader             o
> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory                --
> Livermore, California 94550                          `\< *
> Phone: (925) 423-0145    FAX: (925) 422-7675        /  \
> http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov                         williams13@llnl.gov
> 
> -
> Linux-testers:  testing exiting new kernel patches
> Archive:        http://humbolt.nl.linux.org/lists/
> Patches:        http://linux-patches.rock-projects.org/
-
Linux-testers:  testing exiting new kernel patches
Archive:        http://humbolt.nl.linux.org/lists/
Patches:	http://linux-patches.rock-projects.org/