Re: [Cppunit-devel] Support For Memory Leak detection

[Baptiste L. <bl...@us...>]

Bradbury, Doug wrote:
> I'm running CPPUNIT on an embedded environment without any built in
> memory leak detection.  I've built a little tool (ala James
> Grenning's blog
> http://butunclebob.com/ArticleS.JamesGrenning.CppTestToolsMemoryLeakDetector)
> to just keep a simple count of new and delete in static variables.
> I've successfully added this to a couple of test fixtures.
>
> I'd like to integrate it in a place where it would be called before
> and after each test is run and before and after all tests are run.
> I've been into the CPPUnit code a little bit, but only to write my
> own outputter.  Does anyone have a suggestion as to where I could
> integrate these calls?

The best place I see for that is writing a TestListener. Have a look at 
examples/ClockerPlugIn as it seems similar in concept (used to time each 
test).

Baptiste.
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Baptiste Lepilleur <bl...@us...>
CppUnit maintainer
OpenTest and CppUnit 2 developer.