Is there a good application (that has some kind of gui) for testing memory leaks in c code. I would really like to test my assignment/programme but being very new to this, i str
There's a gui for analyzing valgrind results: http://alleyoop.sourceforge.net/. Besides, there's (non-free) purify which is great, and i believe there's a trial. It has a GUI.
If you're using Microsoft's DevStudio then the C run-time library has plenty of memory allocation tracking tools already built-in:
The Debug Heap
_CrtSetDbgFlag
It amazes me how few programmers seem to be aware of these tools!
On Windows, HeapMon may be of some interest, although it does not explicitly tell you where are your leaks.
Purify is a great application for this.
valgrind is pretty good on Linux, but it only has a command line interface
Depending on the platform (you don't mention it) Valgrind is fantastic on Linux systems. It has no GUI, but doesn't need one.
Just run valgrind <path to your application + arguments>
and it will run your application and spit out any errors during memory operations.
Add the --leak-check=full
and --show-reachable=yes
options after valgrind
to get stack-traces of where your memory leaks originate.