Notes for valgrind
Memory related issues
● Memory Leak : allocated memory but did not free
● Memory Errors : e.g. reading beyond the array limit, reading/writing dangling pointer or
already freed pointers
○ double free
○ reading memory beyond valid area
○ uninitialized memory read
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How to compile code for valgrind?
$ gcc -g main.c func.c
How to run a program under valgrind
$ valgrind ./[Link]
OR
$ valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full ./[Link]
val1.c : Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
val2.c:
=17777== Invalid read of size 4
==17777== at 0x1091B3: main (prog.c:17)
==17777== Address 0x4a56040 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 400 free'd
==17777== at 0x483CA3F: free (in
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-[Link])
==17777== by 0x1091AE: main (prog.c:15)
==17777== Block was alloc'd at
==17777== at 0x483B7F3: malloc (in
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-[Link])
==17777== by 0x10919E: main (prog.c:13)
val3.c :
==17960== Invalid free() / delete / delete[] / realloc()
==17960== at 0x483CA3F: free (in
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-[Link])
==17960== by 0x109197: main (prog.c:16)
==17960== Address 0x1ffefffedc is on thread 1's stack
==17960== in frame #1, created by main (prog.c:7)
val4.c:
==18078== Invalid free() / delete / delete[] / realloc()
==18078== at 0x483CA3F: free (in
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-[Link])
==18078== by 0x10919A: main (prog.c:16)
==18078== Address 0x4a56040 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 400 free'd
==18078== at 0x483CA3F: free (in
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-[Link])
==18078== by 0x10918E: main (prog.c:14)
==18078== Block was alloc'd at
==18078== at 0x483B7F3: malloc (in
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-[Link])
==18078== by 0x10917E: main (prog.c:12)
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val5.c:
==18224== 400 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 1 of 1
==18224== at 0x483B7F3: malloc (in
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-[Link])
==18224== by 0x10917E: main (prog.c:12)
==18224==
References
1. [Link]
