Horatio is designed to be used as an alternative to memory tracking tools such as CodeGuard, MemorySleuth or valgrind, however, as it cannot detect memory over-runs on pointer accesses. It can be used
to detect failures to release memory (as long as it's allocated by us) and attempts to release memory which we do not own.
It has an automatic garbage collection feature to free up all un-freed memory too. It should be used by the entire program to be most effective, it can provide statistics on memory usage and record this to a database back-end.
Horatio provides a central place for dynamic memory allocation in a program, so we can trace all activity.
Traps can be turned off or passed to a handler which will only execute the serious ones.
Features
- Traps and hooks
- Logging
- Leak reporting