Memory debugger

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A memory debugger is a programming tool for finding memory leaks and buffer overflows. These are symptoms for design mistakes or programming errors. See Purify article for more information about memory access error detection.

Examples:

AntiC
boehm-gc (the garbage collector can be used to find leaks)
ccmalloc
dmalloc
Dynamic Leak Check
Electric Fence
Fence It
JProbe™
LeakHunter
LeakTracer
libcwd
MemCheck
MemTrace
Memwatch
mpatrol memory handling library
NJAMD
Parasoft's Insure++
Purify
SPlint
Valgrind

References

Michael C. Daconta: C++ Pointers and Dynamic Memory Management, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-04998-0
Andrew Koenig: C Traps and Pitfalls, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-17928-8

External links

A list of memory error detection tools by Ben Zorn
Article "Hunting Memory Bugs" by Ivan Skytte Jørgensen

Memory debugger

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