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Indeterminatus
Member #737
November 2000
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Hi guys! I was searching the internet for memory leak detection tools, but I simply didn't find anything useful. Most of the memleak-tools require linux or are C-only. I'm using Dev-C++ 5 (the newest beta) along with the packed MinGW. Do any of you guys know a good memleak-tool? If so, please post it here, I guess this will be useful for other people besides me, and as far as I have seen, this question never came up on this forum. Indeterminatus. _______________________________ |
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Richard Phipps
Member #1,632
November 2001
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Search for Fortify. (I don't have a link) It tries to catch malloc errors and seems pretty good. |
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Ron Ofir
Member #2,357
May 2002
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there are libraries such as LibGC. |
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Indeterminatus
Member #737
November 2000
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Got it, thanks a lot! Haven't tested it out yet, but for those interested: Here's the link http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/8596/fortify.html. Indeterminatus. _______________________________ |
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Karadoc ~~
Member #2,749
September 2002
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I wrote my own little piece of memory management code for C. You're welcome to take a look at it, or even use it if you think it would be useful. It's quite simple, but effective. ----------- |
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gillius
Member #119
April 2000
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What did you compress that with? Winzip 8.1 (full version) says the file was compressed with an unsupported compression type "12". EDIT: I was able to use my copy of 7-zip to do it. I forgot I had that. Gillius |
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Daniel Schlyder
Member #257
April 2000
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An alternative to Fortify (for C++) is the debug_new part of NVWA: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nvwa/. I think I started using this cause Fortify didn't work too well with some of my more advanced C++ code. |
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ReyBrujo
Moderator
January 2001
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Or MSS. Google for it. -- |
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gillius
Member #119
April 2000
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MSVCRT*.dll has a memory leak and memory bounds checking facility in it that is pretty good. I've used it before in MSVC. Someone else was asking in another thread for a memory leak tool, and I posted a link there. You can find details from MSDN. I'll repost if requested. Gillius |
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ReyBrujo
Moderator
January 2001
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You can try otherwise Numega BoundChecker. It is a very interesting tool, though you must buy it. It detects memory leaks in executables, and if it is compiled in debug, it shows you the code where you are leaking. -- |
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A J
Member #3,025
December 2002
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msvc7.1 has 'buffer overrun protection' which i guess is a memory leak type of tool, however it will not find things like leak ptr memory.. that is best handled by smart pointers and the like. ___________________________ |
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gillius
Member #119
April 2000
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No it actually WILL find leaks if you call the proper CRT functions, like _CrtSetDbgFlag. I couldn't find the original article that I found this in, but I found this article on FlipCode, and if you search on MSDN for the above function you can find all of the other things it can do. Gillius |
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Karadoc ~~
Member #2,749
September 2002
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Quote: What did you compress that with? Winzip 8.1 (full version) says the file was compressed with an unsupported compression type "12". EDIT: I was able to use my copy of 7-zip to do it. I forgot I had that. Yeah, I actually used 7-zip to do it. Maybe I should pay more attention to what sort of compression I'm using; I sort of just selected the files and pressed 'go' without thinking much about it. ----------- |
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