Debugging and profiling

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The Compute Canada national clusters offer a variety of debugging and profiling tools, both command line and those with a graphical user interface, whose use requires an X11 connection. Note that debugging sessions should be conducted using an interactive job and not run on the login node.

GNU Debugger (gdb)

Please see GDB page

ARM Debugger (ddt)

Please see the ARM software page.

GNU Profiler (gprof)

Please see Gprof page

PGI Profiler (Pgprof)

Please see Pgprof page

Valgrind

Please see Valgrind page