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[Dev-C++] Memory leak detection tool?

[Nicolas R. <ni...@bo...>]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to find a decent memory leak detection tool that

      - works correctly with the latest version of Dev-C++ 5 (i.e. gcc 
3.2)
      - works with C++ code (we use new/delete as opposed to malloc/free)
      - is free, or at least free for non-commercial purposes
      - is reasonably easy to build and install

Our students need such a tool in order to debug dynamic memory-related 
problems. They don't write any Win32 code, just ANSI C++ programs.

I have used MSS ("Memory Supervision System") in the past, and it was 
mostly OK (although it did have its little quirks). But I could not get 
it to compile correctly with Dev.

Another good-looking option would be the mpatrol library, of which 
there is a precompiled version in a package on the MinGW downloads 
page... but programs linked to that lib seem to fail, probably because 
of the gcc 3.2 changes (although the MinGW mpatrol package is dated 
07/21/2003 -- that's post-3.2, isn't it? anyway, it doesn't seem to 
work). Has anyone managed to build mpatrol from source using Dev?

Any tips or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Nicolas
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Re: [Dev-C++] Memory leak detection tool?

[Goran R. <go...@de...>]

Dana sreda 18. februar 2004. 23:21, Nicolas Rosner je napisao/la:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm trying to find a decent memory leak detection tool that

Try valgrind it is great tool!

Goran Rakic
devbase software

Re: [Dev-C++] Memory leak detection tool?

[Reid T. <rei...@at...>]

splint may be of interest also.  http://www.splint.org/

as noted below, valgrind is good, and widely used

Goran Rakic wrote:

> Dana sreda 18. februar 2004. 23:21, Nicolas Rosner je napisao/la:
> 
>>Hello everyone,
>>
>>I'm trying to find a decent memory leak detection tool that
> 
> 
> Try valgrind it is great tool!
> 
> Goran Rakic
> devbase software
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [Dev-C++] Memory leak detection tool?

[Nicolas R. <ni...@bo...>]

Hello,

Thanks to Reid and Goran for their suggestions (splint and valgrind).

The former targets a much more ambitious and general goal than what I 
was looking for, and while it seems to address my needs in particular, 
it does so for C code only (their FAQ says no C++ support). The latter, 
valgrind, is exactly the kind of tool I am looking for, and looks very 
promising indeed... but according to the docs it *requires* a Linux 
kernel, and thus is not compatible with Dev on Windows (it's not even a 
get-it-to-build problem; it just won't work at all).

Any other ideas are welcome. As I said before, I already tried mpatrol 
and MSS, both of which look nice, but I couldn't get either one to 
build and work correctly (probably due to my own limitations and to the 
code being pre-gcc 3.2 and/or rather UNIX-oriented). Is anyone out 
there successfully using a memory leak detector with Dev 5?

Thanks again,
Nicolas



On Feb 18, 2004, at 10:00 PM, Reid Thompson wrote:

> splint may be of interest also.  http://www.splint.org/
>
> as noted below, valgrind is good, and widely used
>
> Goran Rakic wrote:
>
>> Dana sreda 18. februar 2004. 23:21, Nicolas Rosner je napisao/la:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to find a decent memory leak detection tool that
>> Try valgrind it is great tool!
>> Goran Rakic
>> devbase software