From: Nicholas Nethercote Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:33:26 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Update to match website description. X-Git-Tag: svn/VALGRIND_3_0_0~47 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5d17e3d8570a08b879ab178cbbd933a219c3bb05;p=thirdparty%2Fvalgrind.git Update to match website description. git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@4271 --- diff --git a/README b/README index 2eb25b2332..71ac479bcd 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -14,15 +14,15 @@ problems, consult FAQ.txt to see if there are workarounds. Executive Summary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Valgrind is a GPL'd system for debugging and profiling x86-Linux programs. -With the tools that come with Valgrind, you can automatically detect -many memory management and threading bugs, avoiding hours of frustrating -bug-hunting, making your programs more stable. You can also perform -detailed profiling to help speed up your programs. - -The Valgrind distribution includes five tools: two memory error +Valgrind is an award-winning suite of tools for debugging and profiling +Linux programs. With the tools that come with Valgrind, you can +automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, avoiding +hours of frustrating bug-hunting, making your programs more stable. You can +also perform detailed profiling, to speed up and reduce memory use of your +programs. + +The Valgrind distribution currently includes five tools: two memory error detectors, a thread error detector, a cache profiler and a heap profiler. -Several other tools have been built with Valgrind. To give you an idea of what Valgrind tools do, when a program is run under the supervision of the first memory error detector tool, all reads