TotalView Technologies Unveils MemoryScape 3.0

 

TotalView Technologies, a provider of interactive analysis and debugging tools for serial and parallel codes, has reportedly launched MemoryScape 3.0 with Red Zones memory overrun detection feature.

 

MemoryScape is a memory debugging tool designed for monitoring heap allocations, memory leaks, memory overruns, and memory usage.The tool helps developers, build engineers and QA engineers identify and resolve difficult memory problems in C, C++ and FORTRAN.

 

The company’s built-in scripting language memscript is said to play a vital role in validation, verification, and certification in commercial software development projects and high-performance computing labs around the world.

 

The latest version is said to be feature so-called Red Zones, which gives developers immediate feedback if their program reads from or writes to areas either before or after memory buffers in the heap. MemoryScape can now detect and alert the user about low memory conditions, and retains its ability to tie even miniscule memory leaks back to specific source code lines.

 

In addition, MemoryScape's increased interoperability with the TotalView source code debugger is yet another added advantage seen in the latest version. MemoryScape users with a TotalView license can launch now TotalView into their interactive sessions with a single click on the MemoryScape toolbar. Similarly, TotalView users can activate a MemoryScape session from within the TotalView interface. This interoperability can also be extended to the ReplayEngine add-on product, as well.

 

"Array bounds violations, such as those detected by the new Red Zones feature, frequently lead to unstable programs that fail in seemingly random points. Such problems are extremely time consuming and difficult to resolve without capable software tools. MemoryScape and TotalView give developers just the capabilities they need to quickly and easily resolve such errors," said Chris Gottbrath, director of product management at TotalView Technologies, in a statement. "Ultimately, by making these problems easy to resolve we enable our commercial and scientific users to produce more with less effort."

 

Software developers, testers and educators in communications, digital media, financial services, energy, government research, national defense, Web infrastructure, and higher education use TotalView Technologies' products to ensure the rapid development of mission critical applications.