On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 16:49:17 +0100, Leif Thuresson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry, maybe I wasn't very clear on what I wanted. > Purify that I referred to is a tool for checking incorrect memory usage > when writing program. It can detect illegal memory references, > memory leaks etc. > > I have found GNU checker so far > http://www.gnu.org/software/checker/checker.html > but there is only an alpha version available and it is from 1998 > so it doesn't seem to be actively developed. A simple memory checker exists in glibc. I could never get the mcheck() function interface to work (always segfaults on first malloc), but if you export MALLOC_CHECK_=[0 | 1 | 2], you can get some memory checking. Probably not as thorough as a dedicated malloc library, but it does catch things like out of bounds errors. I doubt it can help much with memory leaks, but memprof can help there. Neither of those solutions require any special coding, so that's nice. -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
