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Re: Looking for good Purify like memory check tool for gcc
- From: Andy Howell <AndyHowell at austin dot rr dot com>
- To: Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay at adobe dot com>
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 12:51:39 -0500
- Subject: Re: Looking for good Purify like memory check tool for gcc
- References: <5.2.1.1.0.20030725121451.00b80f98@iplan-mn.corp.adobe.com>
Eljay Love-Jensen wrote:
Hi Andy,
I recommend IBM Rational PurifyPlus for Linux, and IBM Rational PurifyPlus for Unix (Solaris).
q.v. <http://www.rational.com/products/pqc/index.jsp>
Or, alternatively, you can write your own general-purpose new, delete, new[] and delete[] (and/or malloc/alloc/realloc/free) routines which you've instrumented with start/end sentinels (for write-overruns) and allocation tracking (for memory leaks).
For a cheaper solution, try running your code through Borland's CodeGuard. (Is CodeGuard still around...?)
Eljay,
Thanks. I've used Purify previously and was happy with it. I checked
out the site, but could not get a price, as they are moving it over to
IBM's site.
This is for my own enjoyment, so I'm looking for something on the cheap,
preferably open source.
Andy