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Memory leak

Started by Ozguxxx Aug 13, 2002 at 2:54 AM 3 replies 350+ views

Original Post

Aug 13, 2002 at 2:54 AM

I wonder if there is a freeware program which logs memory leaks of a specific program. Do you know anything like this? For example it chekcs the heap of the specified program and logs amount of usage of it into a text file... Thank you.

SysOp_1101

Aug 13, 2002 at 3:10 AM

Look into overloading the new and delete operators. While great care should be taken when doing it, it can provide a fairly 'simple' way of logging everything your program allocates and deallocates during run time.

HTH

[edited by - SysOp_1101 on August 13, 2002 4:10:21 AM]

dustpuppy

Aug 13, 2002 at 3:14 AM

Depends on the OS and the compiler.

Linux has some free software that is meant to do what you want, but I have never used.

This link shows you how to activate the checks in VC++
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~anderson/UsingVCPP/LeakChecking.html