Re: [Valgrind-users] Memcheck and lost pointer tracking

[Nicholas N. <n.n...@gm...>]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 12:49 AM, John Reiser <jr...@bi...> wrote:
>> - The last place where a pointer to a block was clobbered/lost, which is a
>> probable location for the actual leak
>
> Search the Web for "valgrind omega".

This paper is related too:

    author      = {Jonas Maebe and Michiel Ronsse and Koen De Bosschere},
    title       = {Precise detection of memory leaks},
    booktitle   = {Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Dynamic
                   Analysis (WODA 2004)},
    pages       = {},
    address     = {Edinburgh, Scotland},
    month       = may,
    year        = 2004,

In general, what you are proposing is possible, but it's not easy, is
really slow and would be lots of extra code in Memcheck.

Nick