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copied!<p>No, and Yes*.</p> <p>No: As another commenter said, Valgrind does not run on 8051 architectures, so you can't use Valgrind as you would on an x86 system.</p> <p>Yes*: (the asterisk (*) is because it's a limited "yes")</p> <p>But you can use Valgrind on the non-8051/IAR-specific parts of your code if you:</p> <ol> <li>Separate the 8051-specific and IAR-specific code from the architecture/compiler agnostic code. <ul> <li>You'll probably want to do this so the code doesn't get any bigger as a result of separating the agnostic code. (I'm assuming code size is at a premium since you're working on an 8051.)</li> </ul></li> <li>Compile the architecture/compiler agnostic code with gcc and run it using Valgrind on your desktop/laptop development machine, which is probably an x86 machine. <ul> <li>Of course you can use any other Valgrind-supported architecture/compiler, x86/gcc isn't your only choice.</li> </ul></li> </ol> <p>This way Valgrind will be able to check some of your code, which is better than nothing.</p> <p>And separating the compiler/chip specific parts of your code will also make it more portable and reusable.</p> <p>Oh, and this isn't directly related, but you should also consider using a static analysis program like PC-Lint: <a href="http://www.gimpel.com/html/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.gimpel.com/html/index.htm</a></p> <p>It checks some things that Valgrind checks, and many things that Valgrind doesn't check. Plus it will check <em>all</em> of your code, not just the non-8051/IAR code.</p> <p>There are plenty of similar tools out there; PC-Lint is the most popular that I've seen.</p>

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