How can you tell if there is a memory leak?

[HazySmoke)345]

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.

[md]

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.

[Null]

Or you could use tools such as valgrind.

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

[r.3volved]

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

[HazySmoke)345]

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