From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 30 17:35:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21809 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 17:35:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21793 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 17:34:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-130.camalott.com [208.229.74.130]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA09598; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 19:35:44 -0600 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA10574; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 19:34:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joelh) To: Gary Kline Cc: Hackers Mailing List Subject: Re: Memory leak location tool? References: <19981030141624.A1244@thought.org> From: Joel Ray Holveck Date: 30 Oct 1998 19:34:29 -0600 In-Reply-To: Gary Kline's message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:16:24 -0800" Message-ID: <86u30lms4a.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message