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5.1 Kinds of bugs that Memcheck can find

Memcheck is Valgrind's heavyweight memory checking tool. All reads and writes of memory are checked, and calls to malloc, new, free and delete are intercepted. As a result, Memcheck can detect the following problems:

• 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
• Mismatched use of malloc/new/new [] vs free/delete/delete []
• Overlapping ‘src’ and ‘dst’ pointers in memcpy() and related functions