Purify was an amazing tool. I recently noticed that one of my libraries (libffi) still has an --enable-purify configure option, although it probably hasn't been exercised in.. 20 years? A Purify patent prevented work-alikes for many years, but valgrind eventually emerged as a more-than-worthy successor.
Fun fact: the creator of Purify went on to found Netflix and is still their CEO.
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Purify was an amazing tool. I recently noticed that one of my libraries (libffi) still has an --enable-purify configure option, although it probably hasn't been exercised in.. 20 years? A Purify patent prevented work-alikes for many years, but valgrind eventually emerged as a more-than-worthy successor.
Fun fact: the creator of Purify went on to found Netflix and is still their CEO.
Ha! And I thought that the same person writing bzip2 and Val grind is my surprise for the day.
And Ardupilot