On Thursday 23 March 2006 8:36 am, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > I *HIGHLY* recommend Valgrind for memory leak detection. It supports > C++ name mangling, and works on multithreaded code. > > I've used a large variety of memory checking tools over the years; > Valgrind is one of the very best. The designers of this tool are > geniuses. I agree that Valgrind is an excellent tool. However Rational's (IBM's) Purify Plus puts it to shame for a mere $10,000.
A year or so ago, on the BLU discussion list we had a discussion of memory leak detectors where a guy was trying to find a memory leak in his company's code. He used Valgrind as well as electric fence and a few other tools. He downloaded an evaluation version of Purify Plus, and found the problem in 5 minutes, and at the same time was able to prove that the problem was not in his company's code, but in the using company's code. His company then actually purchased a license for Purify Plus. I happend to work for over 2 years porting Purify Plus to Tru64 Unix. -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
