[ILUG] detecting memory leaks

Paul Jakma paulj at alphyra.ie
Tue Jul 9 23:10:32 IST 2002


EletricFence for detecting overruns (and underruns to an extent) and 
the like.

dmalloc for finding memory leaks.

should both be on freshmeat.

--paulj

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Conor Lennon wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm looking for a linux application like purify that detects memory 
> leaks, unitialised memory reads, out-of-bounds errors, etc. in an 
> application.
> A look at freshmeat produces loads of results.  Is there one that is 
> better, easier and requires little or no code changes than the rest?
> Thanks,
> Conor
> 
> 
> 
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