Re: debugging memory leaks

[John Day]

"dmalloc" is another freely-available malloc package, by Gray Watson 
(http://dmalloc.com), which does memory leak and overwrite detection. Works 
with C or C++. I use it all the time.
-jday
At 03:03 PM 3/30/01 +0200, Christoph Spiel wrote:
> Andy:
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:44:51PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> > Does anyone have some advice to give about
> > debugging memory leaks in octave DLD
> > functions.
>
> We are using a static code checker which is not
> open-sourced (it is pretty good, though).  I am
> not aware of any OpenSource static checker
> capable of analyzing C++.
>
> > I pretty sure my code has some, and I wondered
> > if anyone knew of some good tools to help
> > debug this.
>
> For runtime analysis we use (up to) three
> different malloc libraries.  Each of them has
> particular strengths and weaknesses.  Ah, yes --
> sometimes the error's location and even the
> error itself changes when linking against
> different malloc lib.
>
> ElectricFence
>     http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/
>
> ccmalloc
>
> http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/biere/projects/ccmalloc/ccmalloc-english.html
>
> mpatrol
>     http://www.cbmamiga.demon.co.uk/mpatrol/
>
> All three work with C and C++ sources and are
> GPLed.
>
>
> Best,
>         Chris
>
> --
> Christoph L. Spiel  <address@hidden>
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>
>
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