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      7 <book id="FAQ" xreflabel="Valgrind FAQ">
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      9 <bookinfo>
     10   <title>Valgrind FAQ</title>
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     20 
     21 
     22 <article id="faq">
     23 <title>Valgrind Frequently Asked Questions</title>
     24 
     25 
     26 <!-- FAQ starts here -->
     27 <qandaset>
     28 
     29 
     30 <!-- Background -->
     31 <qandadiv id="faq.background" xreflabel="Background">
     32 <title>Background</title>
     33 
     34 <qandaentry id="faq.pronounce">
     35  <question id="q-pronounce">
     36   <para>How do you pronounce "Valgrind"?</para>
     37  </question>
     38  <answer id="a-pronounce">
     39   <para>The "Val" as in the world "value".  The "grind" is pronounced
     40   with a short 'i' -- ie. "grinned" (rhymes with "tinned") rather than
     41   "grined" (rhymes with "find").</para> <para>Don't feel bad: almost
     42   everyone gets it wrong at first.</para>
     43  </answer>
     44 </qandaentry>
     45 
     46 <qandaentry id="faq.whence">
     47  <question id="q-whence">
     48   <para>Where does the name "Valgrind" come from?</para>
     49  </question>
     50  <answer id="a-whence">
     51 
     52   <para>From Nordic mythology.  Originally (before release) the project
     53   was named Heimdall, after the watchman of the Nordic gods.  He could
     54   "see a hundred miles by day or night, hear the grass growing, see the
     55   wool growing on a sheep's back", etc.  This would have been a great
     56   name, but it was already taken by a security package "Heimdal".</para>
     57 
     58   <para>Keeping with the Nordic theme, Valgrind was chosen.  Valgrind is
     59   the name of the main entrance to Valhalla (the Hall of the Chosen
     60   Slain in Asgard).  Over this entrance there resides a wolf and over it
     61   there is the head of a boar and on it perches a huge eagle, whose eyes
     62   can see to the far regions of the nine worlds.  Only those judged
     63   worthy by the guardians are allowed to pass through Valgrind.  All
     64   others are refused entrance.</para>
     65 
     66   <para>It's not short for "value grinder", although that's not a bad
     67   guess.</para>
     68   </answer>
     69  </qandaentry>
     70 
     71 </qandadiv>
     72 
     73 
     74 
     75 <!-- Compiling, Installing and Configuring -->
     76 <qandadiv id="faq.installing" xreflabel="Compiling, installing and configuring">
     77 <title>Compiling, installing and configuring</title>
     78 
     79 <qandaentry id="faq.make_dies">
     80  <question id="q-make_dies">
     81   <para>When building Valgrind, 'make' dies partway with
     82   an assertion failure, something like this:</para>
     83 <screen>
     84 % make: expand.c:489: allocated_variable_append: 
     85         Assertion 'current_variable_set_list->next != 0' failed.
     86 </screen>
     87  </question>
     88  <answer id="a-make_dies">
     89   <para>It's probably a bug in 'make'.  Some, but not all, instances of
     90   version 3.79.1 have this bug, see
     91   <ulink url="http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-make@gnu.org/msg01658.html">this</ulink>.
     92   Try upgrading to a more recent version of 'make'.  Alternatively, we have
     93   heard that unsetting the CFLAGS environment variable avoids the
     94   problem.</para>
     95  </answer>
     96 </qandaentry>
     97 
     98 <qandaentry id="faq.glibc_devel">
     99  <question>
    100   <para>When building Valgrind, 'make' fails with this:</para>
    101 <screen>
    102 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
    103 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
    104 </screen>
    105  </question>
    106  <answer>
    107   <para>You need to install the glibc-static-devel package.</para>
    108  </answer>
    109 </qandaentry>
    110 
    111 </qandadiv>
    112 
    113 
    114 <!-- Valgrind aborts unexpectedly -->
    115 <qandadiv id="faq.abort" xreflabel="Valgrind aborts unexpectedly">
    116 <title>Valgrind aborts unexpectedly</title>
    117 
    118 <qandaentry id="faq.exit_errors">
    119   <question id="q-exit_errors">
    120     <para>Programs run OK on Valgrind, but at exit produce a bunch of
    121     errors involving <literal>__libc_freeres</literal> and then die
    122     with a segmentation fault.</para>
    123   </question>
    124   <answer id="a-exit_errors">
    125     <para>When the program exits, Valgrind runs the procedure
    126     <function>__libc_freeres</function> in glibc.  This is a hook for
    127     memory debuggers, so they can ask glibc to free up any memory it has
    128     used.  Doing that is needed to ensure that Valgrind doesn't
    129     incorrectly report space leaks in glibc.</para>
    130 
    131     <para>The problem is that running <literal>__libc_freeres</literal> in
    132     older glibc versions causes this crash.</para>
    133 
    134     <para>Workaround for 1.1.X and later versions of Valgrind: use the
    135     <option>--run-libc-freeres=no</option> option.  You may then get space
    136     leak reports for glibc allocations (please don't report these to
    137     the glibc people, since they are not real leaks), but at least the
    138     program runs.</para>
    139   </answer>
    140 </qandaentry>
    141 
    142 <qandaentry id="faq.bugdeath">
    143   <question id="q-bugdeath">
    144     <para>My (buggy) program dies like this:</para>
    145 <screen>valgrind: m_mallocfree.c:248 (get_bszB_as_is): Assertion 'bszB_lo == bszB_hi' failed.</screen>
    146     <para>or like this:</para>
    147 <screen>valgrind: m_mallocfree.c:442 (mk_inuse_bszB): Assertion 'bszB != 0' failed.</screen>
    148     <para>or otherwise aborts or crashes in m_mallocfree.c.</para>
    149 
    150   </question>
    151   <answer id="a-bugdeath">
    152     <para>If Memcheck (the memory checker) shows any invalid reads,
    153     invalid writes or invalid frees in your program, the above may
    154     happen.  Reason is that your program may trash Valgrind's low-level
    155     memory manager, which then dies with the above assertion, or
    156     something similar.  The cure is to fix your program so that it
    157     doesn't do any illegal memory accesses.  The above failure will
    158     hopefully go away after that.</para>
    159   </answer>
    160 </qandaentry>
    161 
    162 <qandaentry id="faq.msgdeath">
    163   <question id="q-msgdeath">
    164     <para>My program dies, printing a message like this along the
    165     way:</para>
    166 <screen>vex x86->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0x66 0xF 0x2E 0x5</screen>
    167   </question>
    168   <answer id="a-msgdeath">
    169     <para>One possibility is that your program has a bug and erroneously
    170     jumps to a non-code address, in which case you'll get a SIGILL signal.
    171     Memcheck may issue a warning just before this happens, but it might not
    172     if the jump happens to land in addressable memory.</para>
    173 
    174     <para>Another possibility is that Valgrind does not handle the
    175     instruction.  If you are using an older Valgrind, a newer version might
    176     handle the instruction.  However, all instruction sets have some
    177     obscure, rarely used instructions.  Also, on amd64 there are an almost
    178     limitless number of combinations of redundant instruction prefixes, many
    179     of them undocumented but accepted by CPUs.  So Valgrind will still have
    180     decoding failures from time to time.  If this happens, please file a bug
    181     report.</para>
    182   </answer>
    183 </qandaentry>
    184 
    185 <qandaentry id="faq.java">
    186   <question id="q-java">
    187     <para>I tried running a Java program (or another program that uses a
    188     just-in-time compiler) under Valgrind but something went wrong.
    189     Does Valgrind handle such programs?</para>
    190   </question>
    191   <answer id="a-java">
    192     <para>Valgrind can handle dynamically generated code, so long as
    193     none of the generated code is later overwritten by other generated
    194     code.  If this happens, though, things will go wrong as Valgrind
    195     will continue running its translations of the old code (this is true
    196     on x86 and amd64, on PowerPC there are explicit cache flush
    197     instructions which Valgrind detects and honours).
    198     You should try running with
    199     <option>--smc-check=all</option> in this case.  Valgrind will run
    200     much more slowly, but should detect the use of the out-of-date
    201     code.</para>
    202 
    203     <para>Alternatively, if you have the source code to the JIT compiler
    204     you can insert calls to the
    205     <computeroutput>VALGRIND_DISCARD_TRANSLATIONS</computeroutput>
    206     client request to mark out-of-date code, saving you from using
    207     <option>--smc-check=all</option>.</para>
    208 
    209     <para>Apart from this, in theory Valgrind can run any Java program
    210     just fine, even those that use JNI and are partially implemented in
    211     other languages like C and C++.  In practice, Java implementations
    212     tend to do nasty things that most programs do not, and Valgrind
    213     sometimes falls over these corner cases.</para>
    214 
    215     <para>If your Java programs do not run under Valgrind, even with
    216     <option>--smc-check=all</option>, please file a bug report and
    217     hopefully we'll be able to fix the problem.</para>
    218   </answer>
    219 </qandaentry>
    220 
    221 </qandadiv>
    222 
    223 
    224 <!-- Valgrind behaves unexpectedly -->
    225 <qandadiv id="faq.unexpected" xreflabel="Valgrind behaves unexpectedly">
    226 <title>Valgrind behaves unexpectedly</title>
    227 
    228 <qandaentry id="faq.reports">
    229   <question id="q-reports">
    230     <para>My program uses the C++ STL and string classes.  Valgrind
    231     reports 'still reachable' memory leaks involving these classes at
    232     the exit of the program, but there should be none.</para>
    233   </question>
    234   <answer id="a-reports">
    235     <para>First of all: relax, it's probably not a bug, but a feature.
    236     Many implementations of the C++ standard libraries use their own
    237     memory pool allocators.  Memory for quite a number of destructed
    238     objects is not immediately freed and given back to the OS, but kept
    239     in the pool(s) for later re-use.  The fact that the pools are not
    240     freed at the exit of the program cause Valgrind to report this
    241     memory as still reachable.  The behaviour not to free pools at the
    242     exit could be called a bug of the library though.</para>
    243 
    244     <para>Using GCC, you can force the STL to use malloc and to free
    245     memory as soon as possible by globally disabling memory caching.
    246     Beware!  Doing so will probably slow down your program, sometimes
    247     drastically.</para>
    248     <itemizedlist>
    249       <listitem>
    250         <para>With GCC 2.91, 2.95, 3.0 and 3.1, compile all source using
    251         the STL with <literal>-D__USE_MALLOC</literal>. Beware!  This was
    252         removed from GCC starting with version 3.3.</para>
    253       </listitem>
    254       <listitem>
    255         <para>With GCC 3.2.2 and later, you should export the
    256         environment variable <literal>GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW</literal> before
    257         running your program.</para>
    258       </listitem>
    259       <listitem>
    260         <para>With GCC 3.4 and later, that variable has changed name to
    261         <literal>GLIBCXX_FORCE_NEW</literal>.</para>
    262       </listitem>
    263     </itemizedlist>
    264 
    265     <para>There are other ways to disable memory pooling: using the
    266     <literal>malloc_alloc</literal> template with your objects (not
    267     portable, but should work for GCC) or even writing your own memory
    268     allocators. But all this goes beyond the scope of this FAQ.  Start
    269     by reading 
    270     <ulink 
    271     url="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/faq/index.html#4_4_leak">
    272          http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/faq/index.html#4_4_leak</ulink>
    273     if you absolutely want to do that. But beware: 
    274     allocators belong to the more messy parts of the STL and
    275     people went to great lengths to make the STL portable across
    276     platforms. Chances are good that your solution will work on your
    277     platform, but not on others.</para>
    278  </answer>
    279 </qandaentry>
    280 
    281 
    282 <qandaentry id="faq.unhelpful">
    283   <question id="q-unhelpful">
    284     <para>The stack traces given by Memcheck (or another tool) aren't
    285     helpful.  How can I improve them?</para>
    286   </question>
    287   <answer id="a-unhelpful">
    288     <para>If they're not long enough, use <option>--num-callers</option>
    289     to make them longer.</para>
    290 
    291     <para>If they're not detailed enough, make sure you are compiling
    292     with <option>-g</option> to add debug information.  And don't strip
    293     symbol tables (programs should be unstripped unless you run 'strip'
    294     on them; some libraries ship stripped).</para>
    295 
    296     <para>Also, for leak reports involving shared objects, if the shared
    297     object is unloaded before the program terminates, Valgrind will
    298     discard the debug information and the error message will be full of
    299     <literal>???</literal> entries.  The workaround here is to avoid
    300     calling <function>dlclose</function> on these shared objects.</para>
    301 
    302     <para>Also, <option>-fomit-frame-pointer</option> and
    303     <option>-fstack-check</option> can make stack traces worse.</para>
    304 
    305   <para>Some example sub-traces:</para>
    306 
    307    <itemizedlist>
    308      <listitem>
    309        <para>With debug information and unstripped (best):</para>
    310 <programlisting>
    311 Invalid write of size 1
    312    at 0x80483BF: really (malloc1.c:20)
    313    by 0x8048370: main (malloc1.c:9)
    314 </programlisting>
    315      </listitem>
    316 
    317      <listitem>
    318        <para>With no debug information, unstripped:</para>
    319 <programlisting>
    320 Invalid write of size 1
    321    at 0x80483BF: really (in /auto/homes/njn25/grind/head5/a.out)
    322    by 0x8048370: main (in /auto/homes/njn25/grind/head5/a.out)
    323 </programlisting>
    324      </listitem>
    325 
    326      <listitem>
    327        <para>With no debug information, stripped:</para>
    328 <programlisting>
    329 Invalid write of size 1
    330    at 0x80483BF: (within /auto/homes/njn25/grind/head5/a.out)
    331    by 0x8048370: (within /auto/homes/njn25/grind/head5/a.out)
    332    by 0x42015703: __libc_start_main (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
    333    by 0x80482CC: (within /auto/homes/njn25/grind/head5/a.out)
    334 </programlisting>
    335      </listitem>
    336 
    337      <listitem>
    338        <para>With debug information and -fomit-frame-pointer:</para>
    339 <programlisting>
    340 Invalid write of size 1
    341    at 0x80483C4: really (malloc1.c:20)
    342    by 0x42015703: __libc_start_main (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
    343    by 0x80482CC: ??? (start.S:81)
    344 </programlisting>
    345      </listitem>
    346 
    347      <listitem>
    348       <para>A leak error message involving an unloaded shared object:</para>
    349 <programlisting>
    350 84 bytes in 1 blocks are possibly lost in loss record 488 of 713
    351    at 0x1B9036DA: operator new(unsigned) (vg_replace_malloc.c:132)
    352    by 0x1DB63EEB: ???
    353    by 0x1DB4B800: ???
    354    by 0x1D65E007: ???
    355    by 0x8049EE6: main (main.cpp:24)
    356 </programlisting>
    357      </listitem>
    358    </itemizedlist>
    359 
    360  </answer>
    361 </qandaentry>
    362 
    363 <qandaentry id="faq.aliases">
    364   <question id="q-aliases">
    365     <para>The stack traces given by Memcheck (or another tool) seem to
    366     have the wrong function name in them.  What's happening?</para>
    367   </question>
    368   <answer id="a-aliases">
    369     <para>Occasionally Valgrind stack traces get the wrong function
    370     names.  This is caused by glibc using aliases to effectively give
    371     one function two names.  Most of the time Valgrind chooses a
    372     suitable name, but very occasionally it gets it wrong.  Examples we know
    373     of are printing <function>bcmp</function> instead of
    374     <function>memcmp</function>, <function>index</function> instead of
    375     <function>strchr</function>, and <function>rindex</function> instead of
    376     <function>strrchr</function>.</para>
    377   </answer>
    378 </qandaentry>
    379 
    380 
    381 <qandaentry id="faq.crashes">
    382   <question id="q-crashes">
    383     <para>My program crashes normally, but doesn't under Valgrind, or vice
    384     versa.  What's happening?</para>
    385   </question>
    386   <answer id="a-crashes">
    387     <para>When a program runs under Valgrind, its environment is slightly
    388     different to when it runs natively.  For example, the memory layout is
    389     different, and the way that threads are scheduled is different.</para>
    390     
    391     <para>Most of the time this doesn't make any difference, but it can,
    392     particularly if your program is buggy.  For example, if your program
    393     crashes because it erroneously accesses memory that is unaddressable,
    394     it's possible that this memory will not be unaddressable when run under
    395     Valgrind.  Alternatively, if your program has data races, these may not
    396     manifest under Valgrind.</para>
    397 
    398     <para>There isn't anything you can do to change this, it's just the
    399     nature of the way Valgrind works that it cannot exactly replicate a
    400     native execution environment.  In the case where your program crashes
    401     due to a memory error when run natively but not when run under Valgrind,
    402     in most cases Memcheck should identify the bad memory operation.</para>.
    403   </answer>
    404 </qandaentry>
    405 
    406 
    407 
    408 <qandaentry id="faq.hiddenbug">
    409   <question id="q-hiddenbug">
    410     <para> Memcheck doesn't report any errors and I know my program has
    411     errors.</para>
    412   </question>
    413   <answer id="a-hiddenbug">
    414     <para>There are two possible causes of this.</para>
    415 
    416     <para>First, by default, Valgrind only traces the top-level process.
    417     So if your program spawns children, they won't be traced by Valgrind
    418     by default.  Also, if your program is started by a shell script,
    419     Perl script, or something similar, Valgrind will trace the shell, or
    420     the Perl interpreter, or equivalent.</para>
    421 
    422     <para>To trace child processes, use the
    423     <option>--trace-children=yes</option> option.</para>
    424 
    425     <para>If you are tracing large trees of processes, it can be less
    426     disruptive to have the output sent over the network.  Give Valgrind
    427     the option <option>--log-socket=127.0.0.1:12345</option> (if you want
    428     logging output sent to port <literal>12345</literal> on
    429     <literal>localhost</literal>).  You can use the valgrind-listener
    430     program to listen on that port:</para>
    431 <programlisting>
    432 valgrind-listener 12345
    433 </programlisting>
    434 
    435     <para>Obviously you have to start the listener process first.  See
    436     the manual for more details.</para>
    437 
    438     <para>Second, if your program is statically linked, most Valgrind
    439     tools won't work as well, because they won't be able to replace
    440     certain functions, such as <function>malloc</function>, with their own
    441     versions.  A key indicator of this is if Memcheck says:
    442 <programlisting>
    443 All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
    444 </programlisting>
    445     when you know your program calls <function>malloc</function>.  The
    446     workaround is to avoid statically linking your program.</para>
    447   </answer>
    448 </qandaentry>
    449 
    450 
    451 <qandaentry id="faq.overruns">
    452   <question id="q-overruns">
    453     <para>Why doesn't Memcheck find the array overruns in this
    454     program?</para>
    455 <programlisting>
    456 int static[5];
    457 
    458 int main(void)
    459 {
    460   int stack[5];
    461 
    462   static[5] = 0;
    463   stack [5] = 0;
    464           
    465   return 0;
    466 }
    467 </programlisting>
    468   </question>
    469   <answer id="a-overruns">
    470     <para>Unfortunately, Memcheck doesn't do bounds checking on static
    471     or stack arrays.  We'd like to, but it's just not possible to do in
    472     a reasonable way that fits with how Memcheck works.  Sorry.</para>
    473     
    474     <para>However, the experimental tool Ptrcheck can detect errors like
    475     this.  Run Valgrind with the <option>--tool=exp-ptrcheck</option> option
    476     to try it, but beware that it is not as robust as Memcheck.</para>
    477   </answer>
    478 </qandaentry>
    479 
    480 </qandadiv>
    481 
    482 
    483 
    484 <!-- Miscellaneous -->
    485 <qandadiv id="faq.misc" xreflabel="Miscellaneous">
    486 <title>Miscellaneous</title>
    487 
    488 <qandaentry id="faq.writesupp">
    489   <question id="q-writesupp">
    490     <para>I tried writing a suppression but it didn't work.  Can you
    491     write my suppression for me?</para>
    492   </question>
    493   <answer id="a-writesupp">
    494     <para>Yes!  Use the <option>--gen-suppressions=yes</option> feature
    495     to spit out suppressions automatically for you.  You can then edit
    496     them if you like, eg.  combining similar automatically generated
    497     suppressions using wildcards like <literal>'*'</literal>.</para>
    498 
    499     <para>If you really want to write suppressions by hand, read the
    500     manual carefully.  Note particularly that C++ function names must be
    501     mangled (that is, not demangled).</para>
    502   </answer>
    503 </qandaentry>
    504 
    505 
    506 <qandaentry id="faq.deflost">
    507   <question id="q-deflost">
    508     <para>With Memcheck's memory leak detector, what's the
    509     difference between "definitely lost", "indirectly lost", "possibly
    510     lost", "still reachable", and "suppressed"?</para>
    511   </question>
    512   <answer id="a-deflost">
    513     <para>The details are in the Memcheck section of the user manual.</para>
    514 
    515     <para>In short:</para>
    516     <itemizedlist>
    517       <listitem>
    518         <para>"definitely lost" means your program is leaking memory --
    519         fix those leaks!</para>
    520       </listitem>
    521       <listitem>
    522         <para>"indirectly lost" means your program is leaking memory in
    523         a pointer-based structure.  (E.g. if the root node of a binary tree
    524         is "definitely lost", all the children will be "indirectly lost".) 
    525         If you fix the "definitely lost" leaks, the "indirectly lost" leaks
    526         should go away.
    527         </para>
    528       </listitem>
    529       <listitem>
    530         <para>"possibly lost" means your program is leaking
    531         memory, unless you're doing unusual things with pointers that could
    532         cause them to point into the middle of an allocated block;  see the
    533         user manual for some possible causes.  Use
    534         <option>--show-possibly-lost=no</option> if you don't want to see
    535         these reports.</para>
    536       </listitem>
    537       <listitem>
    538         <para>"still reachable" means your program is probably ok -- it
    539         didn't free some memory it could have.  This is quite common and
    540         often reasonable.  Don't use
    541         <option>--show-reachable=yes</option> if you don't want to see
    542         these reports.</para>
    543       </listitem>
    544       <listitem>
    545         <para>"suppressed" means that a leak error has been suppressed.
    546         There are some suppressions in the default suppression files.
    547         You can ignore suppressed errors.</para>
    548       </listitem>
    549     </itemizedlist>
    550   </answer>
    551 </qandaentry>
    552 
    553 <qandaentry id="faq.undeferrors">
    554   <question id="q-undeferrors">
    555     <para>Memcheck's uninitialised value errors are hard to track down,
    556     because they are often reported some time after they are caused.  Could 
    557     Memcheck record a trail of operations to better link the cause to the
    558     effect?  Or maybe just eagerly report any copies of uninitialised
    559     memory values?</para>
    560   </question>
    561   <answer id="a-undeferrors">
    562     <para>Prior to version 3.4.0, the answer was "we don't know how to do it
    563     without huge performance penalties".  As of 3.4.0, try using the
    564     <option>--track-origins=yes</option> option.  It will run slower than
    565     usual, but will give you extra information about the origin of
    566     uninitialised values.</para>
    567 
    568     <para>Or if you want to do it the old fashioned way, you can use the
    569     client request
    570     <computeroutput>VALGRIND_CHECK_VALUE_IS_DEFINED</computeroutput> to help
    571     track these errors down -- work backwards from the point where the
    572     uninitialised error occurs, checking suspect values until you find the
    573     cause.  This requires editing, compiling and re-running your program
    574     multiple times, which is a pain, but still easier than debugging the
    575     problem without Memcheck's help.</para>
    576 
    577     <para>As for eager reporting of copies of uninitialised memory values,
    578     this has been suggested multiple times.  Unfortunately, almost all
    579     programs legitimately copy uninitialised memory values around (because
    580     compilers pad structs to preserve alignment) and eager checking leads to
    581     hundreds of false positives.  Therefore Memcheck does not support eager
    582     checking at this time.</para>
    583   </answer>
    584 </qandaentry>
    585 
    586 
    587 <qandaentry id="faq.attach">
    588   <question id="q-attach">
    589     <para>Is it possible to attach Valgrind to a program that is already
    590     running?</para>
    591   </question>
    592   <answer id="a-attach">
    593     <para>No.  The environment that Valgrind provides for running programs
    594     is significantly different to that for normal programs, e.g. due to
    595     different layout of memory.  Therefore Valgrind has to have full control
    596     from the very start.</para>
    597 
    598     <para>It is possible to achieve something like this by running your
    599     program without any instrumentation (which involves a slow-down of about
    600     5x, less than that of most tools), and then adding instrumentation once
    601     you get to a point of interest.  Support for this must be provided by
    602     the tool, however, and Callgrind is the only tool that currently has
    603     such support.  See the instructions on the
    604     <computeroutput>callgrind_control</computeroutput> program for details.
    605     </para>
    606   </answer>
    607 </qandaentry>
    608 
    609 
    610 </qandadiv>
    611 
    612 
    613 
    614 <!-- Further Assistance -->
    615 <qandadiv id="faq.help" xreflabel="How To Get Further Assistance">
    616 <title>How To Get Further Assistance</title>
    617 
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    621 
    622 <qandaentry id="e-help">
    623   <!-- <question><para/></question> -->
    624   <answer id="a-help">
    625   <para>Read the appropriate section(s) of the 
    626   <ulink url="&vg-docs-url;">Valgrind Documentation</ulink>.</para>
    627 
    628   <para><ulink url="http://search.gmane.org">Search</ulink> the 
    629   <ulink url="http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.debugging.valgrind">valgrind-users</ulink> mailing list archives, using the group name 
    630   <computeroutput>gmane.comp.debugging.valgrind</computeroutput>.</para>
    631 
    632   <para>If you think an answer in this FAQ is incomplete or inaccurate, please
    633   e-mail <ulink url="mailto:&vg-vemail;">&vg-vemail;</ulink>.</para>
    634 
    635   <para>If you have tried all of these things and are still
    636   stuck, you can try mailing the
    637   <ulink url="&vg-lists-url;">valgrind-users mailing list</ulink>. 
    638   Note that an email has a better change of being answered usefully if it is
    639   clearly written.  Also remember that, despite the fact that most of the
    640   community are very helpful and responsive to emailed questions, you are
    641   probably requesting help from unpaid volunteers, so you have no guarantee
    642   of receiving an answer.</para>
    643 </answer>
    644 
    645 </qandaentry>
    646 </qandadiv>
    647 
    648 
    649 <!-- FAQ ends here -->
    650 </qandaset>
    651 
    652 
    653 
    654 <!-- template 
    655 <qandadiv id="faq.installing" xreflabel="Installing">
    656 <title>Installing</title>
    657 
    658 <qandaentry id="faq.problem">
    659  <question id="q-problem">
    660   <para></para>
    661  </question>
    662  <answer id="a-problem">
    663   <para></para>
    664  </answer>
    665 </qandaentry>
    666 
    667 </qandadiv>
    668 -->
    669 
    670 </article>
    671 
    672 </book>
    673