Mark Wielaard

Mark Wielaard is a Senior Principal Engineer working for Red Hat in the Platform Tools group and works upstream on valgrind, elfutils, systemtap and various GNU toolchain tools.

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Checking usage of realloc with Valgrind

Mark Wielaard

The realloc function in C is useful for memory management, but there are a few tricky cases to watch out for. See how Valgrind Memcheck helps find these issues.

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How to use Valgrind to track file descriptors

Mark Wielaard

Valgrind can be used to track file descriptors. Learn how to find file descriptors at various stages of your program and where they were originally opened.