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Dealing with memory leaks
by
Bernhard Lopez
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last modified
2007-03-01 11:29
A simple and quick way of checking malloc calls is to set the environment variable MALLOC_CHECK_ to 1 and starting the application.
Apart from that more detailed information can be obtained by incorporating in the code dedicated tools like Valgrind or mpatrol, or to use code inspection tools like Purify.