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-Valgrind is an award-winning instrumentation framework for building dynamic
-analysis tools. There are Valgrind tools that can automatically detect many
-memory management and threading bugs, and profile your programs in detail.
-You can also use Valgrind to build new tools.
+Valgrind is a framework for building dynamic analysis tools. There are
+Valgrind tools that can automatically detect many memory management
+and threading bugs, and profile your programs in detail. You can also
+use Valgrind to build new tools.
-The Valgrind distribution currently includes six production-quality tools: a
-memory error detector, two thread error detectors, a cache and
-branch-prediction profiler, a call-graph generating cache profiler, and a
-heap profiler. It also includes two experimental tools: a heap/stack/global
-array overrun detector, and a SimPoint basic block vector generator. It runs
-on the following platforms: X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, PPC32/Linux, PPC64/Linux,
-and X86/Darwin (Mac OS X).
+The Valgrind distribution currently includes six production-quality
+tools: a memory error detector, two thread error detectors, a cache
+and branch-prediction profiler, a call-graph generating cache and
+branch-prediction profiler, and a heap profiler. It also includes
+three experimental tools: a heap/stack/global array overrun detector,
+a different kind of heap profiler, and a SimPoint basic block vector
+generator. It runs on the following platforms: x86/Linux, AMD64/Linux,
+PPC32/Linux, PPC64/Linux, ARM/Linux, x86/MacOSX and AMD64/MacOSX.