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If you do not already have access to the Intel Inspector, you can download an evaluation copy from http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-evaluation-center/.
Standalone GUI and command line operational environments
Preset analysis configurations (with some configurable settings), as well as the ability to create custom analysis configurations to help you control analysis scope and cost
Visibility into individual problems, problem occurrences, and call stack information, with problem prioritization and filtering by inclusion and exclusion to help you focus on items that require your attention
Interactive debugging capability so you can investigate problems more deeply during analysis
Persistent, propagated problem state information to help you avoid investigating issues over and over again
A wealth of reported memory errors, including on-demand memory leak detection
Memory growth measurement to help ensure your application uses no more memory than expected
Data race, deadlock, lock hierarchy violation, and cross-thread stack access error detection, including error detection on the stack
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Build your application in debug mode.
Use optimal compiler/linker settings settings.
Ensure your application creates more than one thread before you run threading analyses.
Verify your application runs outside the Intel Inspector environment.
Ensure you set the EDITOR or VISUAL environment variable to your text editor.
For more information, see: Building Applications.
Follow these steps to get started using the
Intel Inspector.
Run the inspxe-gui command.
For the command line interface: Run the inspxe-cl command. (To get help, append -help to the command line.)
Intel Inspector is based on a project paradigm and requires that you create or open a project to enable analysis features.
Compiled application
Collection of configurable attributes, including suppression rules and search directories
Container for analysis results
For more information, see: Choosing Projects.
Data set size and workload have a direct impact on application execution time and analysis speed.
For best results, choose small, representative data sets that create threads with minimal to moderate work per thread.
Your objective: In as short a runtime period as possible, execute as many paths and the maximum number of tasks (parallel activities) as you can afford, while minimizing the redundant computation within each task to the bare minimum needed for good code coverage.
Data sets that run a few seconds are ideal. Create additional data sets to ensure all your code is inspected.
For more information, see: Configuring Projects.
Intel Inspector offers a range of preset memory and threading analysis types (as well as custom analysis types) to help you control analysis scope and cost. The narrower the scope, the lighter the load on the system. The wider the scope, the larger the load on the system.
Use analysis types iteratively. Start with a narrow scope to verify your application is set up correctly and set expectations for analysis duration. Widen the scope only if you need more answers and you can tolerate the increased cost.
For more information, see: Configuring Analyses.
Executes your application.
Identifies issues that may need handling.
Collects those issues in a result.
Converts symbol information into filenames and line numbers.
Applies suppression rules.
Performs duplicate elimination.
Forms problem sets.
Depending on your analysis configuration options, may launch an interactive debugging session.
For more information, see: Running Analyses.
Groups detected problems into problem sets (but still provides visibility into individual problems and problem occurrences).
Prioritizes the problem sets.
Offers filtering to help you focus on those problem sets that require your attention.
For more information, see: Choosing Problems.
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Online training is an excellent resource for novice, intermediate, and advanced users. It includes links to videos, guides, featured topics, event recaps and archived webinars, upcoming events and webinars, and more. |
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Show you how to find and fix uninitialized memory access, memory leak, and data race errors using C++ and Fortran sample applications. This index of available tutorials is installed at <inspector-install-dir>/documentation/<locale>/tutorials/index.htm. Check Intel Inspector Tutorials online for updates to tutorials. |
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Contain up-to-date information about the Intel Inspector, including a description, technical support, and known limitations. This document also contains system requirements, installation instructions, and instructions for setting up the command line environment. This document is installed at <inspector-install-dir>/documentation/<locale>/<release_notes>.pdf. Check Intel Inspector Release Notes online for updates to release notes. |
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Help you learn to use the Intel Inspector. Samples are installed as individual compressed files under <inspector-install-dir>/samples/en/. After you copy a sample application compressed file to a writable directory, use a suitable tool to extract the contents. Extracted contents include a short README (TXT format) that describes how to build the sample and fix issues. This index of available samples is installed at <inspector-install-dir>/documentation/<locale>/samples_inspector.htm. Check Intel Inspector Samples online for updates to samples. |
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The Help is the primary documentation for the Intel Inspector. It is accessible from the product Help menu. This document is installed at <inspector-install-dir>/documentation/<locale>/help/index.htm Check Intel Inspector Help online for updates to Help. |
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Intel® Learning Lab (white papers, articles and more) |