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Automatic memory leak detection

Started by Bad Maniac Dec 24, 2003 at 4:17 PM 6 replies 600+ views

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Dec 24, 2003 at 4:17 PM

I wrote this little tutorial over on 2dnow for people who use Visual Studio, Have a look,it might be of use to some of you. Memory Leak Detection Tutorial Merry Christmas to you all! //Martin

Enokh

Dec 24, 2003 at 8:21 PM

That''s pretty cool, I checked it out on a simple console app and it was peachy. I''ll try it on my game tommorow, thanks alot Bad Maniac =)

sBibi

Dec 24, 2003 at 8:34 PM

I just tryed it... it''s great, thanks a lot BadManiac, Merry Christmas to you too

AceroSBU

Dec 25, 2003 at 12:33 AM

Not as important to game programming but this type of memory leak detection does not support COM objects (or at least I do not believe it does). I made several attempts with different object types just to make sure.

Otherwise though, great find and thanks! Merry Christmas.

Bad Maniac

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Bad Maniac

Dec 25, 2003 at 5:30 AM

windows and directX (and maybe opengl?) handle their own memory allocation and freeing, so this can''t interfer with that. But COM, Windows and DirectX are pretty good at cleaning up after themselves. this is more to detect human errors and mistakes, like new-ing an array to a pointer and forgetting to delete it and stuff like that. It''s just a help. glad you enjoy it, and thanks AceroSBU for the heads up. =)

noVum

Dec 25, 2003 at 7:29 AM

http://www.flipcode.com/cgi-bin/msg.cgi?showThread=12September2000-PresentingAMemoryManager&forum=askmid&id=-1

Bad Maniac

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Bad Maniac

Dec 29, 2003 at 5:17 AM

Just thought I''d *BUMP* this, it might be useful to some people.

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