From: Tim Hunter <cyclists@...>
Date: 2004-03-18T07:59:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Does anybody Purify Ruby

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:37:06 +1100, Clifford Heath wrote:

> 
> For those who are unfamiliar with Purify, it's *much* more than just a
> memory checker. It rewrites the machine code for each module such that
> every memory reference goes through a validity check, so it can catch
> reads on uninitialised data, use of pointers to freed memory, and hundreds
> more errors that would otherwise be impossible to catch. A truly wonderful
> tool, probably the greatest software quality breakthrough of the 90's.

Check out valgrind: http://valgrind.kde.org/overview.html