Is there a way to control heap usage in C ++ / MacOS?

Question

I'm afraid that part of my code is causing a memory leak, and I'm not sure how to check it. Is there a tool or something for MacOS X?

thanks

Answer 1

Apple has a good description of how to use MallocDebug in OS X on its developer pages.

• document leak detection in general
• especially enable malloc debugging features .

Answer 2

Yes - an application called MallocDebug that is installed as part of the Xcode package.

You can find it in the folder /Developer/Applications/Performance Tools.

Answer 3

, UNIX ... .

, . , , , , . Valgrind MallocDebug ..

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Answer 4

BEST PERIOD tool for memory errors, leaks, etc. - Valgrind. Start here . You do not need to do anything special in your code, and this will tell you where the memory was allocated (with a full stack trace, even in C). In addition, it will detect a write to free memory, uninitialized memory usage and much more.