[Gllug] Memory Leak Detecting

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On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 09:51:10PM +0100, Peter Childs wrote:
>>     Does anyone know of any good tools for finding memory leaks other
>> than running it through Valgrind multiple times trying to follow as many
>> avenues as possible. I'm really lookin for some sort of Parser. As I
>> have quite a lot off C++/Qt code I know has leaks and I would really
>> love the find and plug them.
> 
> I can recommend trying out MPatrol, which not only replaces the traditional
> C malloc/free style functions, but also C++  new/delete, and also overrides
> core functions like memset, memcpy to protect & dectect invalid pointers
> and buffer overflows in their use.

GCC 4.1 will introduce -fmudflap, which tries to do similar things while
reducing erroneous warnings by applying compile-time analysis.

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