Visual C++ - Memory Leak Detection

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Jacob picture Jacob · May 12, 2010 · Viewed 17.5k times · Source

Any suggestions? This SO post talks about Visual Leak Detector, but I'm looking for other tools. Also, please don't recommend this.

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the_mandrill picture the_mandrill · Aug 9, 2010

I've used Visual Leak Detector quite recently and it works pretty well. It's very simple to build it in (just include vld.h) and doesn't require any instrumentation. I found that I needed to write a couple of scripts though to parse the output into something more useful for my purposes (it is crying out for a decent GUI). Note the new website -- the project is being actively maintained on Codeplex -- the Codeproject link is very old.

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