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HazySmoke)345

Mon Jan 08, 2007 4:52 pm


How can you tell if there is a memory leak?

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Besides the fact that you can try to run your program 1000 times and see if it crashes, is there actually a way to figure out whether there's memory allocated by malloc() that hasn't been freed? Thanks.


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md

Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:10 pm


RE:How can you tell if there is a memory leak?

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Yes, using other libraries and tools; what they are called I do not know. You can also try writing your own malloc wrapper that counts allocations and deallocations; then you could get current memory usage.


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Null

Tue Jan 09, 2007 9:08 pm


RE:How can you tell if there is a memory leak?

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Or you could use tools such as valgrind.

It will report memory leaks and segfaults and where they occur.


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r.3volved

Tue Jan 09, 2007 9:59 pm


RE:How can you tell if there is a memory leak?

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I use the boost library
It's auto unit test helps me out a lot


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HazySmoke)345

Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:25 am


Re: How can you tell if there is a memory leak?

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Thanks guys, I'll try and see if I can work with them.