Re: [GD-General] memory checking

[Brett B. <res...@ga...>]

Thanks guys for your notes. Since we have a memory corruption our memory =
wrappers didn't pick up on the error. I'll look into some of the fancy =
stuff Brian mentioned. I heard good things about valgrind but alas it's =
only linux. Hmm, a port... maybe something to think about. I did find =
HeapAgent http://www.microquill.com/mqplatfm.htm interesting but the =
demo version told me less than CodeWarrior about the problem :)=20
Cheers,
Brett

----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Daniel Vogel" <vo...@ep...>
To: <gam...@li...>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 12:32 PM
Subject: RE: [GD-General] memory checking


> Won't really help you (gotta love posts that start like this ;)) as =
it's
> Linux only though Valgrind is a godsend for this purpose -
> http://valgrind.kde.org/. I wish someone would either port it to =
Windows or
> create an equivalently useful product.=20
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> I tried BoundsChecker in the past though wasn't happy with it as it =
requires
> instrumentation which didn't work in conjunction with our engine.
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> -- Daniel, Epic Games Inc. =20
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gam...@li...=20
> > [mailto:gam...@li...] On=20
> > Behalf Of Brett Bibby
> > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:34 PM
> > To: Gam...@li...
> > Subject: [GD-General] memory checking
> >=20
> > I recently ran into a serious memory bug I just can't track=20
> > down and it seems it's time to get some sort of memory=20
> > debugging tool. Ideally it would be available for Win32, PS2=20
> > and GameCube and work with CodeWarrior, but just Windows=20
> > would be acceptable.  The only tools I can find so far are=20
> > BoundsChecker and Purify, but neither looks like it will work=20
> > with our CodeWarrior setup.  I also tried just using the=20
> > crtdbg funcitons, but getting the MS libs into CodeWarrior is=20
> > proving problematic.
> >=20
> > Does anybody know of any commercial product that might be=20
> > useful? Are there any standalone memory checkers out there?=20
> > Anybody using BoundsChecker that can comment on whether you=20
> > must have Visual Studio or not?
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> > Thanks,
> > Brett
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