Summary: Memory leak detection programs

From: Markley, Sean <Sean.Markley_at_ca.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 15:17:20 -0400

> Hi managers,
>
> Does anyone know of any cool shareware programs for DEC that can be
> used to search for memory leaks caused by uninitialized pointers or
> dynamic memory allocation by a C program using malloc? I don't think I
> can get a PO for a product like PURIFY, so I was wondering what might
> else might be out there for free. Thanks in advance.

Well,
     I must say this list is full of really cool people - shout out
to Mike woods. Here is a short (although) not complete compilation
of what I've gotten back.

Tool Desc.
------------------- ---------------------
dmalloc - http://www.dmalloc.com library shareware - needs platform specific
                                                compilation - nice tool - lots of platforms.

third / atom - OS supplied /usr/bin man pages available - tried it out but wasn't
may need SA to install too great. May have not used it to full
                                                effectiveness, but gave me nothing to work with.
                                                Please do not judge this tool on my opinion of course.

Insure? Have not tried it out - requires license I
                                                believe.

GPA (graphical Program Ananlysis) Looks interesting - haven't tried yet but is next
                                                on my list. Looks like it's free.
http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/dtk/misc_docs/gpa_ov.html

Purify - needs license - may not be
available for Tru64 either.
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