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Hi, I'm not expert at all on these two tools, but for me it doesn't make sense to run together, as they help in different steps of the development cycle.

I first use gdb when I want to understand what my program does, specially if it crashes.
And I use valgrind once my program works to detect memory leaks and performance bottlenecks.

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