Subject: Re: Memory leaks
From: Alan Young (ayoung@teleport.com)
Date: Wed Jun 20 2001 - 09:34:28 CDT
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:16:13 +0100 (BST), Matthew Kirkwood
<matthew@hairy.beasts.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
>
> > > Actually, coming to think of it, me (or anyone alse with access to it)
> > > running Purify on the code should probably be part of the release
> > > procedure! What do you think?
> >
> > I'm all for it but can anybody recommend some good *free* memory leak
> > tools for Windows and our other platforms. Then I can get to work on
> > it myself (:
>
> Owen Taylor's memprof is nice, but I don't know how much
> it likes C++. It shouldn't be too far off if your default
> new uses malloc.
>
> I think it's i386-linux-glibc-elf-only, tho'.
There is a package by Graeme Roy called mpatrol that might help. It's at
http://www.cbmamiga.demon.co.uk/mpatrol/ . According to the web page,
it appears to be pretty cross platform - NT, unix, x86, alpha and other CPUs.
Alan
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