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Re: [HACKERS] Leaks?

Michael Richards <miker@scifair.acadiau.ca> — 1998-04-19T22:05:04Z

On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> > I was wondering if you used any leak finding tools in your code? There
> 
> 	Several times over the past two years, there have been ppl taht
> have popped up with tools like Purify and ElectricFence, providing
> 	...with that in mind, point us to where the leak is, and we'll try
> and fix it :)
Well, I wasn't convinced until I started using Memcheck either, but I
found a logfile that spit stuff like
Warning 387 bytes allocated in test.c(133) not freed
or 
Warning BUFFER overrun at memcpy(testbuf) in file test1.c(26)

was really useful. If I ever find the time to dig in the source, I was
thinking of linking in memcheck and seeing what it could tell me. No sense
in my doing that if someone was already doing it to find the leaks...

-Mike