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NAME="purpose">2.1. Purpose</H2
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> Valgrind is an open-source tool for finding memory-management problems
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in Linux-x86 executables. It detects memory leaks/corruption in the program
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being run. It is being developed by <A
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>Julian Seward</A
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NAME="acknowledgements">2.2. Acknowledgments</H2
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> We express our sincere appreciation to Julian Seward
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for creating Valgrind. Thanks to Mr.Pramode C.E and also
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friends at the Govt Engineering College, Trichur for their advice and cooperation.
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> Copyright (C)2002 Deepak P, Sandeep S.
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>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
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or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
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with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
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A copy of the license is included in <A
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>Appendix A</A
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> entitled "GNU
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Free Documentation License".</P
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> Kindly forward feedback and criticism to <A
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>Deepak.P</A
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> or/and <A
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>Sandeep.S</A
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>. We shall be indebted to anybody who points out errors and inaccuracies in this document; we will rectify them as soon as we are informed.
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