1<html> 2<head> 3<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> 4<title>Valgrind Technical Documentation</title> 5<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="vg_basic.css"> 6<meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1"> 7<link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Valgrind Documentation"> 8<link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Valgrind Documentation"> 9<link rel="prev" href="faq.html" title="Valgrind Frequently Asked Questions"> 10<link rel="next" href="design-impl.html" title="1.�The Design and Implementation of Valgrind"> 11</head> 12<body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> 13<div><table class="nav" width="100%" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" border="0" summary="Navigation header"><tr> 14<td width="22px" align="center" valign="middle"><a accesskey="p" href="faq.html"><img src="images/prev.png" width="18" height="21" border="0" alt="Prev"></a></td> 15<td width="25px" align="center" valign="middle"><a accesskey="u" href="index.html"><img src="images/up.png" width="21" height="18" border="0" alt="Up"></a></td> 16<td width="31px" align="center" valign="middle"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html"><img src="images/home.png" width="27" height="20" border="0" alt="Up"></a></td> 17<th align="center" valign="middle">Valgrind Documentation</th> 18<td width="22px" align="center" valign="middle"><a accesskey="n" href="design-impl.html"><img src="images/next.png" width="18" height="21" border="0" alt="Next"></a></td> 19</tr></table></div> 20<div class="book"> 21<div class="titlepage"> 22<div> 23<div><h1 class="title"> 24<a name="tech-docs"></a>Valgrind Technical Documentation</h1></div> 25<div><p class="releaseinfo">Release 3.13.0 15 June 2017</p></div> 26<div><p class="copyright">Copyright � 2000-2017 <a class="ulink" href="http://www.valgrind.org/info/developers.html" target="_top">Valgrind Developers</a></p></div> 27<div><div class="legalnotice"> 28<a name="idm140394919379488"></a><p>Email: <a class="ulink" href="mailto:valgrind@valgrind.org" target="_top">valgrind@valgrind.org</a></p> 29</div></div> 30</div> 31<hr> 32</div> 33<div class="toc"> 34<p><b>Table of Contents</b></p> 35<dl class="toc"> 36<dt><span class="chapter"><a href="design-impl.html">1. The Design and Implementation of Valgrind</a></span></dt> 37<dt><span class="chapter"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html">2. Writing a New Valgrind Tool</a></span></dt> 38<dd><dl> 39<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html#manual-writing-tools.intro">2.1. Introduction</a></span></dt> 40<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html#manual-writing-tools.writingatool">2.2. Basics</a></span></dt> 41<dd><dl> 42<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html#manual-writing-tools.howtoolswork">2.2.1. How tools work</a></span></dt> 43<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html#manual-writing-tools.gettingcode">2.2.2. Getting the code</a></span></dt> 44<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html#manual-writing-tools.gettingstarted">2.2.3. Getting started</a></span></dt> 45<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html#manual-writing-tools.writingcode">2.2.4. Writing the code</a></span></dt> 46<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html#manual-writing-tools.init">2.2.5. Initialisation</a></span></dt> 47<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html#manual-writing-tools.instr">2.2.6. Instrumentation</a></span></dt> 48<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html#manual-writing-tools.fini">2.2.7. Finalisation</a></span></dt> 49<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html#manual-writing-tools.otherinfo">2.2.8. Other Important Information</a></span></dt> 50</dl></dd> 51<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html#manual-writing-tools.advtopics">2.3. Advanced Topics</a></span></dt> 52<dd><dl> 53<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html#manual-writing-tools.advice">2.3.1. Debugging Tips</a></span></dt> 54<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html#manual-writing-tools.suppressions">2.3.2. Suppressions</a></span></dt> 55<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html#manual-writing-tools.docs">2.3.3. Documentation</a></span></dt> 56<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html#manual-writing-tools.regtests">2.3.4. Regression Tests</a></span></dt> 57<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html#manual-writing-tools.profiling">2.3.5. Profiling</a></span></dt> 58<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html#manual-writing-tools.mkhackery">2.3.6. Other Makefile Hackery</a></span></dt> 59<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html#manual-writing-tools.ifacever">2.3.7. The Core/tool Interface</a></span></dt> 60</dl></dd> 61<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="manual-writing-tools.html#manual-writing-tools.finalwords">2.4. Final Words</a></span></dt> 62</dl></dd> 63<dt><span class="chapter"><a href="cl-format.html">3. Callgrind Format Specification</a></span></dt> 64<dd><dl> 65<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="cl-format.html#cl-format.overview">3.1. Overview</a></span></dt> 66<dd><dl> 67<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="cl-format.html#cl-format.overview.basics">3.1.1. Basic Structure</a></span></dt> 68<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="cl-format.html#cl-format.overview.example1">3.1.2. Simple Example</a></span></dt> 69<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="cl-format.html#cl-format.overview.associations">3.1.3. Associations</a></span></dt> 70<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="cl-format.html#cl-format.overview.example2">3.1.4. Extended Example</a></span></dt> 71<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="cl-format.html#cl-format.overview.compression1">3.1.5. Name Compression</a></span></dt> 72<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="cl-format.html#cl-format.overview.compression2">3.1.6. Subposition Compression</a></span></dt> 73<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="cl-format.html#cl-format.overview.misc">3.1.7. Miscellaneous</a></span></dt> 74</dl></dd> 75<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="cl-format.html#cl-format.reference">3.2. Reference</a></span></dt> 76<dd><dl> 77<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="cl-format.html#cl-format.reference.grammar">3.2.1. Grammar</a></span></dt> 78<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="cl-format.html#cl-format.reference.header">3.2.2. Description of Header Lines</a></span></dt> 79<dt><span class="sect2"><a href="cl-format.html#cl-format.reference.body">3.2.3. 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