13. Lackey: an example tool

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13.1. Overview
13.2. Lackey Command-line Options

To use this tool, you must specify --tool=lackey on the Valgrind command line.

13.1. Overview

Lackey is a simple Valgrind tool that does various kinds of basic program measurement. It adds quite a lot of simple instrumentation to the program's code. It is primarily intended to be of use as an example tool, and consequently emphasises clarity of implementation over performance.