[Valgrind-users] Leak detection during program execution

[Stephane D. <ste...@ex...>]

Hello all,

HP's Tru64 Unix has a tool that is very similar to valgrind. It's called
Third Degree (see 
http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V40F_HTML/APS30ETE/THRDDGRC.HTM#third-custom-sec ) and has a very nice feature allowing to track memory leaks during program execution. In the .third configuration script you can put a directive triggering the leak detection after a specific function has been called. For instance, if your .third config file contains the following line

new leaks after MyPeriodicFunction every 2

the instrumented program will perform a leak detection every 2 calls to
MyPeriodicFunction, thus detecting only "real" memory leaks (i.e. the
memory leaks created by all the code executed between two calls to
MyPeriodicFunction). See the complete documentation of the .third
features at
http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V40F_HTML/MAN/MAN5/0125____.HTM

Do you think it feasible to add those features to valgrind ?

Regards,
Stephane Donze