Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 18:31:40 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory leak location tool? Message-ID: <199811010231.SAA24573@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <86u30lms4a.fsf@detlev.UUCP> References: <19981030141624.A1244@thought.org> <86u30lms4a.fsf@detlev.UUCP>
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In article <86u30lms4a.fsf@detlev.UUCP>,
Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> 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.
And I'll just add that it works very nicely indeed.
John
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