G2

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/24/2019

"Excellent tool to detect and resolve memory errors on dynamic analysis."

4/5

What do you like best about Valgrind?

Help to detect the usage of uninitialized memory region in stack. Help to find out the usage of already freed memory. Help to detect the write operations to outside the allocated blocks. Help to identify the memory overwrite on memcpy operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Valgrind?

Have seen limitation to identify memory overwrite in static/stack data like static arrays. Identify the issues from logs need an expert programmer (Medium level or above). As the tool uses dynamic analysis, each and every case needs to simulate to make the application error-free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Valgrind:

It's good to introduce static analysis with MISRA C12 validation. Need to implement logic to validate out of bound write to static arrays. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Valgrind solving and how is that benefiting you?

Help to identify memory errors like writing to a memory not allocated, writing to a memory already released. We can easily generate reports and share them with customers to improve their confidence in products. Once the error scenario is known, it helps to identify any dynamic memory leaks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.