On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 01:05:16PM +0530, dhruva wrote:
I am not sure on what platform you are looking for tools to detect memory leaks.
Assuming on M$ (windows): 1. DebugDiag 2. UMDH
I would use valgrind (at least on Linux and x86, it doesn't work for many other platforms such as Mips :-() For programs using only malloc there should be many more alternatives such as electric fence, ...
These are available for free from MS and are very useful. Though, it
Where free means probably without source code ...
requires you to perform multiple actions before being able to drill down into the code.
valgrind doesn't require this but using compiled debug information in your program is a good idea. Maybe it works even with Cygwin? As it is also a memory access checker it is a very good tool (but not cross platform!!!)! Jens