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Date:      30 Oct 1998 19:34:29 -0600
From:      Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        Hackers Mailing List <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Memory leak location tool?
Message-ID:  <86u30lms4a.fsf@detlev.UUCP>
In-Reply-To: Gary Kline's message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:16:24 -0800"
References:  <19981030141624.A1244@thought.org>

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> Are there any free tools to detect likely memory leaks?  Tools
> like Purify aren't quite what I'm looking for.    
>    Anybody?

"more `grep -l malloc /usr/ports/devel/*/pkg/DESCR`" will turn up the
following:

* The Boehm-Weiser garbage collecting malloc (boehm-gc) includes a leak
  detector.

* Doug Lea's malloc (libdlmalloc) and libmalloc include hooks to add
  leak detection.

* S-Lang (libslang) says that it includes "a malloc debugging
  package".  I'm not sure whether they mean something to help debug
  malloc, or a malloc that helps you debug your code.

Happy hacking,
joelh

-- 
Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org
   Fourth law of programming:
   Anything that can go wrong wi
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