ZeroFault's comprehensive run-time emulator technology allows it to catch the memory errors and leaks that plague nearly all software. Since there's no need to recompile or relink your programs, you can start finding those problems immediately--in most cases, it's as simple as inserting the word "zf" in front of the command you use to invoke your program. And since ZeroFault makes no distinction between your code and someone else's, it can help you track down errors in third-party libraries and programs that you depend on.
ZeroFault detects a comprehensive set of memory errors:
- Memory
leaks of all kinds
- Reads
or writes of unallocated stack, heap, and static memory
- Reads
of uninitialized stack, heap, and static memory
- Reads
or writes of freed heap memory
- Attempts
to free or realloc unallocated memory
- Invalid arguments passed to system calls and common functions
-
Traceback leading to the error
- Line
number information
- Memory
address of the error
- Allocation
and deallocation traceback of any memory block related to the
error
ZeroFault is easy to use:
- No
modifying your build environment
- No
recompilation
- No
relinking
- No
creating new executable images
- Just install it and start using it
ZeroFault is powerful and effective:
- Follows
forks and execs
- Provides
both GUI and ASCII
interfaces
- Provides
html on-line documentation
- Provides
source-code display and editing
- Expand
and collapse error reports with a single click
- Sort
errors by severity, order of occurrence, location, etc.
- Condense
errors by module, function, location, etc.
- Filter
errors by regular-expression pattern matching
- Offers flexible licensing models to fit different needs
System requirements:
- AIX 3.2.5, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
- Any 32 or 64 Bit AIX machine, including non-IBM products
- 32 megabytes of memory
- 5 megabytes of free disk space