Re: issues

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 skaller wrote:
>
> This is mainly because I don't normally write code in C,
> unless I really have to, and Valgrind, gdb, etc, are
> fairly useless with code generated by higher level tools 
> like Ocaml.

Really?  I haven't used valgrind with a higher-level language such as ocaml,
but since valgrind operates on x86 (and powerpc) object code, then I can't
think of any reason why it wouldn't work just as well with ocaml.

The only thing that would be different is that the debugging symbols that get
printed out might not be as meaningful.  So, yes, I guess that would make it
less useful.  It would still tell you about a bug, but if ocaml (et al.) don't
produce the kind of debugging symbols that valgrind is used to then the report
that the human sees might be the same as if the program had been compiled
without debug info.

See also: oprofile, the slickest performance profiler around, which likewise
operates at the machine language level.

Regards,

Zooko