memory checkers and gcc support

[Nicholas Nethercote]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, J. Hart wrote:

> Valgrind is an excellent product as far as it goes, but is x86 only, and
> apparently lacks the sort of stack checking that Purify and Checker have.

Valgrind is currently being officially ported to several other platforms.
We hope to have AMD64/Linux and PPC32/Linux ports complete by the middle 
of this year.  It still won't be able to do stack checking, though.

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