Lightweight memory leak debugging on linux

Question

I looked for existing answers first and saw that Valgrind is everyone’s favorite tool for memory leak debugging on linux. Unfortunately Valgrind does not seem

Answer 1

You might also consider using Google's gperftools, which has a heap profiler that can be loaded via LD_PRELOAD. You can also link in its tcmalloc and leak checker into your binary, and enable them only when needed.

For details, see https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools