I think one reason we liked Valgrind best was the easy setup/ramp up process. This made understanding the program painless. Another plus was the memory leak detection. We found this tool to be fairly accurate and informative giving my team and me confidence in the results. Also provides a large portfolio of tools available for users to utilize for a number of projects and problems.

There are many dynamic tools built in valgrind. You don’t have to build it from scratch.

Help to detect the usage of uninitialized memory region in stack. Help to find out the usage of already freed memory. Help to detect the write operations to out side the allocated blocks. Help to identify the memory overwrite on memcpy operations.