Re: Memory Leaks

[Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@zip.com.au>]

Fred Wan wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know if there are possibilities of tracing memory leaks with
> 
> gdb (xxxgdb)? The only thing I now have at my disposal is Visual C++,
> and
> its routines for tracing those kinds of errors are insufficient and
> inaccurate (but what can you expect from microsoft?). I was used to the
> commercial C++ compiler package from IBM on a RISC\6000 AIX machine,
> that includes a heap debugger, an excellent program. I now have Solaris
> 7 (on intel) with just g++ and gdb and I haven't found any specialized
> ways of tracking memory leaks.

Have a look at this page:

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/homes/zorn/public_html/MallocDebug.html

Erik
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