[CLUE-Tech] C programming question

[Dave Anselmi]

Jim Ockers wrote:

> Our programmer says that he has been able to find memory leaks in the
> past using GUI tools such as MS Visual Studio for Windows programs.  He has
> not been able to find an efficient tool for doing the same sort of searches for
> memory leaks in programs on Linux systems.
>
> We have almost ruled out gdb because it is so dense.  Undoubtedly it has the
> functionality we want but it is very unfriendly.

A friend of mine who's done a lot of C says that he's used a GNU library called dmalloc or something
similar (a debugging malloc).  It's instrumented to help with memory leak checking.  You should be
able to get info off the GNU site.

Dave