[Valgrind-users] Valpyk: Python script to parse Valgrind output

[Victor S. <vic...@in...>]

Hi,

I'm using Valgrind since beginning of September to fix memory leaks in NuFW 
firewall [1]. I tried some memory leak tools:
* Electric Fence => just crash
* libc option (MALLOC_CHECK_=1) => don't detect memory leaks
* Mudflap (from gcc) => crash

Valgrind is the only one which works well with NuFW which heavily use threads 
(and glib thread pools). So first of all: THANKS FOR YOUR GREAT TOOL!

To read very long Valgrind logs, I tried some GUI:
* Alleyoop: Ubuntu package is buggy, I sent patch to Ubuntu packager but I 
didn't get answer yet. Alleyoop don't helped me to read logs.
* Valkyried doesn't want to compile here

So I choosed to write my own tool: Valpyk. It parses logs, filter errors (skip 
library internals errors since I don't want to patch libc for example), 
remove duplicates, and display smart output.

Get more informations and download it at:
http://software.inl.fr/trac/trac.cgi/wiki/Valpyk

You have to edit source code to edit filters.

[1] NuFW firewall: http://www.nufw.org/

Victor Stinner
http://www.inl.fr/