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/*!
    \contentspage {Qt Creator Manual}
    \previouspage creator-valgrind-overview.html
    \page creator-analyzer.html
    \nextpage creator-cache-profiler.html

    \title Detecting Memory Leaks

    You can use the Memcheck tool included in the
    Valgrind tool suite to detect
    problems that are related to memory management in applications.

    \note You can install and run Memcheck locally on Linux. You can run
    it on a remote host or device from any development machine.

    After you download and install Valgrind tools, you can use Memcheck from
    \QC.

    To analyze applications:

    \list 1

        \li In the \gui Projects mode, select a debug build configuration.

        \li Select \gui Analyze > \gui {Valgrind Memory Analyzer}.

        \li Select the
            \inlineimage qtcreator-analyze-start-button.png "Start button"
            button to start the application.

        \li Use the application to analyze it.

        \li Select the
            \inlineimage qtcreator-debug-button-stop.png "Stop button"
            button to view the results of the analysis in the
            \gui {Analysis} view.

    \endlist

    While the application is running, Memcheck checks all reads and writes of
    memory and intercepts calls that allocate or free memory or create or
    delete memory blocks. When you stop Memcheck, it displays the results in
    the \gui Analysis view. Click a line to view where a memory leak
    occurred and a stack trace that shows what caused it.

    \image analyzer-issues.png "Analysis view"

    Move the mouse on a row to view more information about the function.

    For more information about using Memcheck, see
    \l{http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/quick-start.html#quick-start.mcrun}
    {Interpreting Memcheck's Output} in the Valgrind documentation.

    \section1 Selecting Options for Memory Analysis

    You can specify analyzer settings either globally for all projects or
    separately for each project in the \l{Specifying Run Settings}{run settings}
    of the project.

    Stack traces can get quite large and confusing, and therefore, reading them
    from the bottom up can help. If the stack trace is not big enough or it is
    too big, select \gui {Tools > Options > Analyzer}.
    Define the length of the stack trace in the \gui {Backtrace frame count}
    field.

    \image qtcreator-valgrind-memcheck-options.png "Memory Analysis options"

    Memcheck also reports uses of uninitialised values, most commonly with the
    message \gui {Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s).}
    To determine the root cause of these errors, the \gui {Track origins of
    uninitialized memory} check box is selected by default. You can deselect it
    to make Memcheck run faster.

    Memcheck searches for memory leaks when the client application finishes. To
    view the amount of leaks that occurred, select \gui {Summary Only} in the
    \gui {Check for leaks on finish} field. To also view details of each leak,
    select \gui Full.

    \section2 Showing Reachable and Indirectly Lost Blocks

    \e Reachable blocks are blocks that are pointed at by a pointer or chain
    of pointers and that might have been freed before the application exited.
    \e {Indirectly lost} blocks are considered lost because all the blocks that
    point to them are themselves lost. For example, all the children of a lost
    root node are indirectly lost.

    By default, Memcheck does not report reachable and indirectly lost blocks.
    To have them reported, select the \gui {Show reachable and indirectly lost
    blocks}.

    \section2 Suppressing Errors

    Memcheck detects numerous problems in the system libraries, such as the C
    library, which come pre-installed with your OS. As you cannot easily fix
    them, you want to suppress them. Valgrind reads a list of errors to suppress
    at startup. A default suppression file is created by the ./configure script
    when the system is built.

    You can write your own suppression files if parts of your project contain
    errors you cannot fix and you do not want to be reminded of them. Click
    \gui Add in the \gui {Memory Analysis} dialog to add the suppression files.
    For more information about writing suppression files, see
    \l{http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/manual-core.html#manual-core.suppress}
    {Suppressing Errors} in the Valgrind documentation.

*/


/*!
    \contentspage {Qt Creator Manual}
    \previouspage creator-analyzer.html
    \page creator-cache-profiler.html
    \nextpage creator-running-valgrind-remotely.html

    \title Profiling Function Execution

    You can use the Callgrind tool included in the
    \l{http://valgrind.org/info/tools.html}{Valgrind tool suite} to detect
    problems that are related to executing functions.

    After you download and install Valgrind tools, you can use Callgrind from
    \QC.

    \note You can install and run Callgrind locally on Linux. You can run
    it on a remote Linux machine or device from any development machine.

    To analyze applications:

    \list 1

        \li In the \gui Projects mode, select a release build configuration.

        \li Select \gui Analyze > \gui {Valgrind Function Profiler}.

        \li Select the
            \inlineimage qtcreator-analyze-start-button.png "Start button"
            button to start the application.

        \li Use the application to analyze it.

        \li Select the
            \inlineimage qtcreator-debug-button-stop.png "Stop button"
            button to view the results of the analysis in the \gui Profile
            view.

    \endlist

    Callgrind records the call history of functions that are executed when the
    application is run. It collects the number of instructions that are
    executed, their relationship to source lines, the relationships of the
    caller and callee between functions, and the numbers of such calls. You can
    also use cache simulation or branch prediction to gather information about
    the runtime behavior of an application.

    Double-click a function to view information about the calling functions in
    the \gui Callers view and about the called functions in the \gui Callees
    view.

    Since the run-time characteristics of debug and release
    \l{glossary-build-config}{build configurations}
    differ significantly, analytical findings for one build configuration may or
    not be relevant for the other. Profiling a debug build
    often finds a major part of the time being spent in low-level
    code like container implementations, while the same code
    does not show up in the profile of a release build of the
    same application due to inlining and other optimizations
    typically done there.

    Many recent compilers allow you to build an optimized application
    with debug information present at the same time. Typical
    options for GCC are for instance \c{-g -O2}. It is
    advisable to use such a setup for Callgrind profiling.


    \image qtcreator-valgrind-callgrind.png "Profile view"

    \section1 Selecting Profiling Options

    You can specify analyzer settings either globally for all projects or
    separately for each project in the \l{Specifying Run Settings}{run settings}
    of the project.

    To specify settings for Valgrind, select \gui {Tools > Options >
    Analyzer}. The \gui {Profiling Options} group contains Callgrind options.

    \image qtcreator-valgrind-callgrind-options.png "Valgrind options"

    In the \gui {Result view: Minimum event cost}
    field, limit the amount of results the profiler gives you to increase
    profiler performance.

    You can collect information about the system call times and the number of
    global bus events of the event type \c Ge that are executed.

    \section2 Enabling Full Cache Simulation

    By default, only instruction read accesses (Ir) are counted. To fully
    simulate the cache, select the \gui {Enable cache simulation} check box.
    This enables the following additional event counters:

    \list

        \li Cache misses on instruction reads (I1mr/I2mr)

        \li Data read accesses (Dr) and related cache misses (D1mr/D2mr)

        \li Data write accesses (Dw) and related cache misses (D1mw/D2mw)

    \endlist

    \section2 Enabling Branch Prediction Simulation

    To enable the following additional event counters, select the
    \gui {Enable branch prediction simulation} check box:

    \list

        \li Number of conditional branches executed and related predictor misses
            (Bc/Bcm)

        \li Executed indirect jumps and related misses of the jump address
            predictor (Bi/Bim)

    \endlist

*/


/*!
    \contentspage {Qt Creator Manual}
    \previouspage creator-cache-profiler.html
    \page creator-running-valgrind-remotely.html
    \nextpage creator-advanced.html

    \title Running Valgrind Tools on External Applications

    \QC integrates Valgrind code analysis tools for detecting memory
    leaks and profiling function execution.

    To run the Valgrind tools to analyze external applications for which
    you do not have a \QC project:

    \list 1

        \li Select \gui Analyze > \gui {Valgrind Memory Analyzer (External
            Remote Application)} or
            \gui {Valgrind Function Profiler (External Remote Application)}.

            \image qtcreator-valgrind-remote-settings.png "Start Analyzer dialog"

        \li Specify the application to run and analyze, and the \l{glossary-buildandrun-kit}{kit}
            to use.

    \endlist

*/
