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Old 11-15-2005
Tool for finding memory leaks
hi, i am a c++ programmer working on linux(redhat linux8.0) environment, i need to find out the memory leaks, so far i didn't used any tools, so what are the tools are available, and whic one is good to use. plz provide with a small example.
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Old 11-15-2005
Electric Fence and Valgrind are two Open Source tools that work very well, especially since they both find stuff the other one overlooks.

This doesn't involve coding - you compile
Code:
gcc -g -Wall myfile.c -lefence -o myfile

to bring in electric fence.
then optinally run the code "under"
Code:
valgrind filename

You have to interpret where your leaks originate.

http://www.llnl.gov/icc/lc/DEG/valgrind/

http://www.parl.clemson.edu/~wjones/...gging/pres.pdf
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