Memory leak detection under WIndows

[coder99]

One of the reasons I am still working with MSVC is that it includes fairly good support for memory leak detection.

I have looked around for open source replacements for this to use with CL.
Before I start my own search and experiments, does anyone have any recommendations or comments?

TIA

[frank_frl]

First of all is it a good practice to write the appendant free or delete right after allocating memory.

Frank

[sdolim]

This post at stackoverflow.com has a lot of useful suggestions for this question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4562 ... naged-code

One free tool mentioned on that page that might be very helpful is DebugDiag from Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloadS/deta ... laylang=en

The blurb on the tool's home page says this:

The Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag) is designed to assist in troubleshooting issues such as hangs, slow performance, memory leaks or fragmentation, and crashes in any Win32 user-mode process.

It appears you don't have to instrument your code. Haven't tried it yet myself, but I think I'm going to.

[coder99]

Wish things were so simple to follow frank_frl' s advice

I've had a brief look at the stackoverflow commentary and I have used/heard of several of the products described, but I was hoping for some comments from people using CL as to what they have found useful or useless .

I will give some of the recommended product a bit of a try, if I find the time to get them installed and working.

At present it is far easier for me to try and keep a parallel MSVC project going and to switch to it for some testing. Might have to dust off some of my own old code and polish it up.

Unfortunately it looks like the wxWidgets stuff does not work with MINGW
Oh well, ......

[marfi]

Hi, I use Valgrind ( together with its GUI called Valkyrie ) on Linux. It works (slowly, but works with console apps as well as with wxWidgets. It would be a nice to integrate it with CL. Unfortunately, it is not designed for MS Windows...

[eranif]

Hi, I use Valgrind ( together with its GUI called Valkyrie ) on Linux. It works (slowly, but works with console apps as well as with wxWidgets. It would be a nice to integrate it with CL. Unfortunately, it is not designed for MS Windows...

I am familiar with valgrind and I am working with it at work. However, since it does not cross platform, I avoided making a plugin for it

Eran

[coder99]

I had heard of it but since it won't run under Windows, I sort of left it alone

But I'll keep looking and trying