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Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 11:31:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Memory leak location tool?
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don't forget 'mprof'
very good for this.


On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Robert Swindells wrote:

> 
> >> 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.
> 
> There is also a simple one as part of X11R6.3.
> 
> It is in xc/utils/memleak.
> 
> I can't tell if the 386 support came as standard, or with the XFree86
> patches.
> 
> Robert Swindells
> -------------------------------------
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