Re: memory checking

does anyone have any suggestions for open-source applications for 
debugging memory leaks on windows?  we can't afford the license fees for 
bounds checker etc unfortunately.

mike w
www.gekidodesigns.com

Brett Bibby wrote:
> Thanks guys for your notes. Since we have a memory corruption our memory wrappers didn't pick up on the error. I'll look into some of the fancy stuff Brian mentioned. I heard good things about valgrind but alas it's only linux. Hmm, a port... maybe something to think about. I did find HeapAgent http://www.microquill.com/mqplatfm.htm interesting but the demo version told me less than CodeWarrior about the problem :) 
> Cheers,
> Brett
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Daniel Vogel" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 12:32 PM
> Subject: RE: [GD-General] memory checking
> 
> 
> 
>>Won't really help you (gotta love posts that start like this ;)) as it's
>>Linux only though Valgrind is a godsend for this purpose -
>>http://valgrind.kde.org/. I wish someone would either port it to Windows or
>>create an equivalently useful product. 
>>
>>I tried BoundsChecker in the past though wasn't happy with it as it requires
>>instrumentation which didn't work in conjunction with our engine.
>>
>>-- Daniel, Epic Games Inc.  
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: [email protected] 
>>>[mailto:[email protected]] On 
>>>Behalf Of Brett Bibby
>>>Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:34 PM
>>>To: [email protected]
>>>Subject: [GD-General] memory checking
>>>
>>>I recently ran into a serious memory bug I just can't track 
>>>down and it seems it's time to get some sort of memory 
>>>debugging tool. Ideally it would be available for Win32, PS2 
>>>and GameCube and work with CodeWarrior, but just Windows 
>>>would be acceptable.  The only tools I can find so far are 
>>>BoundsChecker and Purify, but neither looks like it will work 
>>>with our CodeWarrior setup.  I also tried just using the 
>>>crtdbg funcitons, but getting the MS libs into CodeWarrior is 
>>>proving problematic.
>>>
>>>Does anybody know of any commercial product that might be 
>>>useful? Are there any standalone memory checkers out there? 
>>>Anybody using BoundsChecker that can comment on whether you 
>>>must have Visual Studio or not?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Brett
>>>
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