Re: memory profiling (was calling g_malloc & co via a vtable)



Darin Adler <darin eazel com> writes:

> agree that in principle leak checking can be done well other ways, for
> example Purify works well, but only on Solaris and it costs money, but I
> have no leak checking tool that works well enough to use those other ways.
> This "0 blocks on exit" tool is working pretty well for me. I'm judging by
> results no principle.

BTW -

I would consider any leak that Purify can detect and memprof can't
a memprof bug. Purify does some fairly magic things like being
able to tell you _when_ the memory was leaked, but detecting leaks
is straightforward.

                                        Owen




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