True, the defaults are pretty lame, but my point is if you don't free, and you start using data you intended to free, that's a memory bug valgrind won't be able

True, the defaults are pretty lame, but my point is if you don't free, and you start using data you intended to free, that's a memory bug valgrind won't be able to help you with unless you free your memory. FWIW, this is in my bashrc along with a myriad of other programs that have lame defaults: alias valgrind='valgrind --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes --track-origins=yes --track-fds=yes --error-limit=no'