ltrace vs Valgrind
A side-by-side look at ltrace and Valgrind. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
ltrace
Development
ltrace is a debugging utility that intercepts and records dynamic library calls which are called by an executed process. It can be used to trace calls made by programs to shared libraries and helps debug issues caused by dynamic linking.
librarydebuggingtracingdynamic-linking
Valgrind
Development
Valgrind is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools. It can detect memory management and threading bugs, and profile programs. Valgrind helps programmers improve code quality by detecting reading/writing of uninitialized memory, memory leaks, and more.
memorydebuggingprofiling
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