This a set of notes I put together for my Computer Architecture
class in 1990. Students had a project in which they had to model a
microprocessor architecture of their choice. They used these notes to
learn VHDL. The notes cover the VHDL-87 version of the language.
Not all of the language is covere ...
The Valgrind distribution has multiple tools. The most popular is the memory checking tool (called Memcheck) which can detect many common memory errors such as:
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touching memory you shouldn t (eg. overrunning heap block boundaries)
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using values before they have been initialized
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inco ...