Re: Memory issues.

Ok.. first off, thanks for the toys.. Splint is nice.

Secondly.. it is telling me that I have memory leaks in a couple of 
functions that send a string (char) to another function to return it 
modified. For example:

act_comm.c:108:48: New fresh storage (type char *) passed as implicitly temp
                      (not released): capitalize(ch->name)
  A memory leak has been detected. Storage allocated locally is not released
  before the last reference to it is lost. (Use -mustfreefresh to inhibit
  warning)

Thoughts on how to fix these errors?

- Valnir

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Bunting" <[email protected]>
To: "Valnir" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: Memory issues.


> Hello,
>
> Were you the one who issued the mstat command? If someone creates a
> mob using OLC or adds a mobprog that isn't coded correctly,  Issuing
> the mstat command will cause the mud to crash.
>
>>>Lastly, does anyone know of a way to find memory leaks?
>
> Are you running on linux? If you, you should download GNU Lint and
> also read the docs.. Lint will give you a ton of more infomation about
> your mud over GDB. Lint will also tell you if sytax is wrong or
> various other possibile warnings in your code that GDB won't or may
> not catch. I rarely hear mention of this I guess since most people
> rely on what is most popular or well known.. But read up on lint.. I
> personally think it's great.
>
> Links to great tools for Mud Developers.. The first 3 tools are for
> Linux, The last one, API Monitor is for Windows.. A good program for
> those using windows/mysql and Rom.
>
> Valgrind:
> The distribution currently includes five tools: two memory error
> detectors, a thread error detector, a cache profiler and a heap
> profiler.
> http://valgrind.org/
>
> Slint:
> Splint is a tool for statically checking C programs for security
> vulnerabilities and coding mistakes.
> http://www.splint.org/
>
> Data Display Debugger:
> DDD is a graphical front-end for command-line debuggers such as GDB,
> DBX, WDB, Ladebug, JDB, XDB, the Perl debugger, the bash debugger, or
> the Python debugger. DDD displays data structures as graphs and plots.
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ddd/
>
> API Monitor for Windows Users:
> API Monitor is a software that monitors and displays API calls made by
> applications. Its a powerful tool for seeing how Windows and other
> applications work or tracking down problems that you have in your own
> applications.
> http://www.rohitab.com/apimonitor/
>
> Hope this helps,
> Chris
> 


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