Looking for good Purify like memory check tool for gcc

[Tony Wetmore]

If you want something that runs (only) on Linux, you might check out
Valgrind:

   http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/

Essentially it works by running your process in a sort of virtual
machine environment, so it can detect all sorts of weirdness, but it can
slow down your process quite a bit.  Assuming that's not a problem for
you, this may be a good tool.

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Tony Wetmore
Raytheon Solipsys
mailto:tony.wetmore@solipsys.com
http://www.solipsys.com
 
 


-----Original Message-----
From: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org [mailto:gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org] On
Behalf Of Andy Howell
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 1:52 PM
To: Eljay Love-Jensen
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Looking for good Purify like memory check tool for gcc


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