Dynamic code analysis for C++

Question

Is there an open source and (relatively) simple-to-use dynamic code analysis tool for C++ code?

Something like IBM Purify (memory corruption detection, memory leak d

Answer 1

Try Valgrind. It is not as powerful as IBM Purify, but it works quite fine...

Answer 2

CodeCompass is quite good as well.

Although it has quite the dependencies compared to Valgrind and Duma, it's a quality analysis tool.

Answer 3

The software that is widely used (on Linux at least) is Valgrind. It has a lot of sub tools used to do what you are looking for.

There is also KCacheGrind which is a GUI frontend to the profiling tool of Valgrind, AKA Cachegrind.

Answer 4

Try Duma (Detect Unintended Memory Access).