Memory Leaks

G3ck0G33k writes: "Is there any free software version/clone of Rational's programs PureCoverage and/or Purify? I have worked with both of them on fairly large projects (>150,000 lines of code) and they were great to work with. When the first runs of Purify found nearly fifty instances of minor memory leaks, I was deeply frustrated/impressed. A free (perhaps GPLd) clone would be so interesting; Rational's licensing is killing my current budget. Of course, the more kinds of leaks it may detect, the better. GeckoGeek" We had a similar question last year but there's no harm in seeing what the current answers are.

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[AX.25]

What Memory Leak Detector Do People Use?

I asked REdhat once..

[josepha48]

they told me they use electric fence. While it is definately not the same (I have used purify as well) it is basically a library that you like against and then when you run your program it checks your malloc's and things like that to make sure you have allocated the correct amount of space.

But to answer the question are there any out there? NO, not with pretty GUIs and all.