aard

(programming, tool)(Dutch for "earth") A tool to check memoryuse for C++ programs, written by Steve Reiss (who names his programs after livingsystems).

Aard tracks the state of each byte of memory in the heap andthe stack. The state can be one of Undefined,Uninitialised, Free or Set. The program can detect invalidtransitions (i.e. attempting to set or use undefined or freestorage or attempting to access uninitialised storage).

In addition, the program keeps track of heap use throughmalloc and free and at the end of the run reports memoryblocks that were not freed and that are not accessible(i.e. memory leaks).

The tools works using a spliced-in shared library onSPARCs running C++ 3.0.1 under SunOS 4.X.

ftp://wilma.cs.brown.edu/pub/aard.tar.Z.

AARD

Acronym	Definition
AARD➣Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (Ministry of Agriculture; Indonesia)
AARD➣Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development (Alberta, Canada)
AARD➣Autonomous Airborne Refueling Demonstration (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; US NASA)
AARD➣American Academy of Restorative Dentistry (formerly American Society of Dental Ceramics)
AARD➣Agricultural Agency for Research and Development (Indonesia)