1 usage: valgrind [options] prog-and-args 2 3 tool-selection option, with default in [ ]: 4 --tool=<name> use the Valgrind tool named <name> [memcheck] 5 6 basic user options for all Valgrind tools, with defaults in [ ]: 7 -h --help show this message 8 --help-debug show this message, plus debugging options 9 --version show version 10 -q --quiet run silently; only print error msgs 11 -v --verbose be more verbose -- show misc extra info 12 --trace-children=no|yes Valgrind-ise child processes (follow execve)? [no] 13 --trace-children-skip=patt1,patt2,... specifies a list of executables 14 that --trace-children=yes should not trace into 15 --child-silent-after-fork=no|yes omit child output between fork & exec? [no] 16 --track-fds=no|yes track open file descriptors? [no] 17 --time-stamp=no|yes add timestamps to log messages? [no] 18 --log-fd=<number> log messages to file descriptor [2=stderr] 19 --log-file=<file> log messages to <file> 20 --log-socket=ipaddr:port log messages to socket ipaddr:port 21 22 user options for Valgrind tools that report errors: 23 --xml=yes emit error output in XML (some tools only) 24 --xml-fd=<number> XML output to file descriptor 25 --xml-file=<file> XML output to <file> 26 --xml-socket=ipaddr:port XML output to socket ipaddr:port 27 --xml-user-comment=STR copy STR verbatim into XML output 28 --demangle=no|yes automatically demangle C++ names? [yes] 29 --num-callers=<number> show <number> callers in stack traces [12] 30 --error-limit=no|yes stop showing new errors if too many? [yes] 31 --error-exitcode=<number> exit code to return if errors found [0=disable] 32 --show-below-main=no|yes continue stack traces below main() [no] 33 --suppressions=<filename> suppress errors described in <filename> 34 --gen-suppressions=no|yes|all print suppressions for errors? [no] 35 --db-attach=no|yes start debugger when errors detected? [no] 36 --db-command=<command> command to start debugger [... -nw %f %p] 37 --input-fd=<number> file descriptor for input [0=stdin] 38 --dsymutil=no|yes run dsymutil on Mac OS X when helpful? [no] 39 --max-stackframe=<number> assume stack switch for SP changes larger 40 than <number> bytes [2000000] 41 --main-stacksize=<number> set size of main thread's stack (in bytes) 42 [use current 'ulimit' value] 43 44 user options for Valgrind tools that replace malloc: 45 --alignment=<number> set minimum alignment of heap allocations [...] 46 47 uncommon user options for all Valgrind tools: 48 --fullpath-after= (with nothing after the '=') 49 show full source paths in call stacks 50 --fullpath-after=string like --fullpath-after=, but only show the 51 part of the path after 'string'. Allows removal 52 of path prefixes. Use this flag multiple times 53 to specify a set of prefixes to remove. 54 --smc-check=none|stack|all checks for self-modifying code: none, 55 only for code found in stacks, or all [stack] 56 --read-var-info=yes|no read debug info on stack and global variables 57 and use it to print better error messages in 58 tools that make use of it (Memcheck, Helgrind, 59 DRD) [no] 60 --run-libc-freeres=no|yes free up glibc memory at exit on Linux? [yes] 61 --sim-hints=hint1,hint2,... known hints: 62 lax-ioctls, enable-outer [none] 63 --kernel-variant=variant1,variant2,... known variants: bproc [none] 64 handle non-standard kernel variants 65 --show-emwarns=no|yes show warnings about emulation limits? [no] 66 --require-text-symbol=:sonamepattern:symbolpattern abort run if the 67 stated shared object doesn't have the stated 68 text symbol. Patterns can contain ? and *. 69 70 user options for Nulgrind: 71 (none) 72 73 Extra options read from ~/.valgrindrc, $VALGRIND_OPTS, ./.valgrindrc 74 75 Nulgrind is Copyright (C) 2002-2010, and GNU GPL'd, by Nicholas Nethercote. 76 Valgrind is Copyright (C) 2000-2010, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. 77 LibVEX is Copyright (C) 2004-2010, and GNU GPL'd, by OpenWorks LLP et al. 78 79 Bug reports, feedback, admiration, abuse, etc, to: www.valgrind.org. 80 81
