help with memory leak

Question

Hello.
I saw that there are tools to help you troubleshoot memory leaks.
You have used them?
what do you recommend(free or commercial)?
Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi giuseppe500,

The Visual Studio debugger and C Run-Time (CRT) libraries provide you with the means for detecting and identifying memory leaks. For more information, please check Finding Memory Leaks Using the CRT Library.

For your future concern about debugger, I recommend you visit Visual Studio Debugger forum.

Cheers,

Yi

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Answer 2

"Visual leak detector" is a free tool that works simple and very good.
The only thing you need to do is put the lib somewhere in the libpaths of VC (or add one), and #include<vld.h> in your main module.

Kind regards
Rob
www.robtso.nl

 

 

Answer 3

BoundsChecker was a good tool for this. Nu-Mega is long gone, but BoundsChecker is not...

http://www.microfocus.com/products/micro-focus-developer/devpartner/index.aspx

 

Answer 4

Hello.
I saw that there are tools to help you troubleshoot memory leaks.
You have used them?
what do you recommend(free or commercial)?
Thank you.

In addition to what others wrote, I might suggest that very powerful "tools" against memory leaks (and resource leaks in general) in C++ are properly designed RAII classes, like smart pointers (e.g. shared_ptr, scoped_ptr, etc.) or containers like std::vector (instead of raw new[]).

Giovanni

 

Answer 5

you can as well use Rational Purifier tool