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{{short description|Programming tool for profiling, memory debugging and memory leak detection}}
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| author = [[Julian Seward]], Nicholas Nethercote<ref>{{Cite web |title=AUTHORS |url=https://valgrind.org/docs/manual/dist.authors.html |access-date=2022-09-19 |website=valgrind.org}}</ref>
| developer = Valgrind Development Team<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://valgrind.org/info/developers.html|title = Valgrind: The Developers}}</ref>
| released = Jul 27, 2002<ref>{{Cite web |title=Twenty years of Valgrind |date=27 July 2022 |url=https://nnethercote.github.io/2022/07/27/twenty-years-of-valgrind.html |access-date=2023-08-04 }}</ref>
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| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]
| operating_system = [[Linux]]<br/>{{nowrap|[[FreeBSD]]}}<br/>{{nowrap|[[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]]}}<br/>[[Android (operating system)|Android]]<ref name="relnotes">[https://valgrind.org/docs/manual/dist.news.html Valgrind release notes]</ref>
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| genre = [[Profiler (computer science)|Profiler]], [[Memory debugger]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.valgrind.org/}}
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'''Valgrind''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|v|æ|l|ɡ|r|ɪ|n|d}})<ref>{{Cite web |title=Valgrind |url=https://valgrind.org/docs/manual/faq.html#faq.pronounce |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=valgrind.org}}</ref> is a [[programming tool]] for [[memory debugger|memory debugging]], [[memory leak]] detection, and [[profiling (computer programming)|profiling]].

Valgrind was originally designed to be a [[Free software|freely licensed]] memory debugging tool for [[Linux]] on [[x86]], but has since evolved to become a generic framework for creating dynamic analysis tools such as checkers and profilers.