RE: [GD-Windows] memory leak?

[Andrew G. <ag...@cl...>]

Yeap, the importance of having identical (modulo hideous CRT bugs) memory
allocation behaviour across platforms can't be understated. Also if you're
working on consoles then a custom memory manager is pretty much vital, even
small degrees of fragmentation can really hurt you.


Andy @ 
Climax Brighton 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Hook [mailto:bri...@py...]
> Sent: 07 November 2002 19:15
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: RE: [GD-Windows] memory leak? 
> 
> 
> > I've found tools like Purify to be more thorough than 
> > anything I could write myself, however.
> 
> BoundsChecker et. al. do provide some facilities such as API
> verification and stack corruption that are hard to roll on your own
> transparently, but writing your own still gives you a lot more
> flexibility than going off-the-shelf.  And mine just 
> automatically works
> with all my projects and doesn't incur any special startup tasks or
> overhead.
> 
> More importantly, writing your own will give you a solution that's
> cross-platform and works in any environment.  If you have a 
> leak that's
> manifesting on Linux but not Windows then it can be kind of 
> frustrating
> trying to find it.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
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