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Started by Mystagogue May 30, 2002 04:49 AM

8 comments, last by Mystagogue 21 years, 10 months ago

Mystagogue

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May 30, 2002 04:49 AM

So what is everyone''s favorite memory leak hunting tool? I''m looking to get one and I hear that GreatCircle is the best (and costs a whopping $1500 for a Windows 2000 platform license). Here is a web site listing others... http://www.mozilla.org/performance/tools.html I should also ask, does anyone know if Visual Studio .Net comes with some kind of memory leak hunter tool?

Zeke

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May 30, 2002 04:58 AM

Boundschecker is the only one ive used and that is pretty good

Just my thoughts take them as you will. "People spend too much time thinking about the past, whatever else it is, its gone"-Mel Gibson, Man Without A Face

Anonymous

May 30, 2002 05:00 AM

look at _CrtDumpMemoryLeaks() in MSDN. Also other functions in the <crtdbg.h> file. These come with MSDN and are useful (to a point).

Carrot

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May 30, 2002 06:23 AM

Why not write it yourself?

Its quite easy to overload the new/delete operators and keep a list of allocated memory blocks, and dump out the unreleased blocks at quit time.
I''ve done this before and it founds leaks the BoundsChecker missed.

<a href="http://www.purplenose.com>purplenose.com

DerekSaw

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May 30, 2002 06:40 AM

And talking about overloading new/delete... I found this new overloading tutorial useful.

"after many years of singularity, i'm still searching on the event horizon"

nemethr

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May 30, 2002 01:51 PM

Another commercial package you might look into is Insure++ from Parasoft. I''ve used it for about 1 1/2 years now on both Sun/SPARC and Windows 2000 platforms. I been rather satisfied with it.

dalleboy

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May 30, 2002 04:55 PM

Rational Purify

Kylotan

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May 30, 2002 06:45 PM

I used HeapAgent for a little while, and it was perfect... until it mysteriously stopped working altogether, and the technical support had no idea. So I would recommend using it as a free trial download (if they still have that option) while you fix your bugs, but not to pay for it.

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