{"id":86,"date":"2011-02-11T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2011-02-11T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T10:32:00","slug":"valgrind-checking-of-ios-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Valgrind checking of iOS programs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, this is awesome news. First, valgrind<\/a> has been available for OS X for some time now. And second, you can use it to check your iOS programs<\/a> on the simulator with it.<\/p>\n

The idea here is to let your program spawn valgrind itself. Because you cannot tell the simulator to run the program through valgrind. Well, maybe you could build a funky bundle, but I think this works just fine. So here is the  code, taken from the above link:<\/p>\n

#define VALGRIND \"\/usr\/local\/valgrind\/bin\/valgrind\"
 
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
#ifdef VALGRIND_REXEC
    \/* Using the valgrind build config, rexec ourself
     * in valgrind *\/
    if (argc < 2 || (argc >= 2 && strcmp(argv[1], \"-valgrind\") != 0)) {
        execl(VALGRIND, VALGRIND, \"--leak-check=full\", \"--dsymutil=yes\", argv[0], \"-valgrind\",
              NULL);
    }
#endif
  
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    int retVal = UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, @\"PeepsAppDelegate\");
    [pool release];
    return retVal;
}
<\/pre>\n
You will obviously want to define the VALGRIND_REXEC<\/span> macro, if you need valgrind output. You can also pass different command line arguments to valgrind. E.g. you can switch to different valgrind tools this way, or pipe everything to a log-file.
Update:<\/b> I finally got around to trying out this method. One problem here is that valgrind will fail to run, since it tries to open \/dev\/random, which I guess is not allowed for sandboxed applications. But one can fix this by patching and recompiling valgrind<\/a>, which is not too hard. Especially when using MacPorts. Furthermore, I needed to add –dsymutil=yes<\/span> to the valgrind options, or else the program would just crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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