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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="person">
		<email>blueness@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Anthony G. Basile</name>
	</maintainer>
	<longdescription>
		Valgrind is a GPL'd tool to help you find memory-management problems
		in your programs. When a program is run under Valgrind's supervision,
		all reads and writes of memory are checked, and calls to
		malloc/new/free/delete are intercepted. As a result, Valgrind can
		detect problems such as

		- Use of uninitialised memory
		- Reading/writing memory after it has been free'd
		- Reading/writing off the end of malloc'd blocks
		- Reading/writing inappropriate areas on the stack
		- Memory leaks -- where pointers to malloc'd blocks are lost forever
		- Passing of uninitialised and/or unaddressible memory to system calls
		- Mismatched use of malloc/new/new [] vs free/delete/delete []
		- Some abuses of the POSIX Pthreads API
	</longdescription>
</pkgmetadata>