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Re: Memory Leak Detection

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On 09/14/11 06:06 PM, Juha Nieminen wrote:
> Miles Bader<miles@gnu.org>  wrote:
>> [Running valgrind on a program for the first time can be a rude shock
>> though, revealing tons of little bugs that you never noticed before!]
>
>    Actually if you have followed the basic rules of RAII and all the
> rules that naturally follow from it (such as the so-called rule of
> three, never use a raw 'new', use the STL whenever it's suitable, and
> so on), such bugs become rarer and rarer.

The most recent one I found (using dbx, not valgrind) was a bug in a 
system library flushed out by me using RAII to match library allocations 
and deallocations.  With the "proper" code I got duplicate free errors 
and without it I got a memory leak!  In the end I settled for the leak 
and a bug report.

-- 
Ian Collins

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Memory Leak Detection Christopher <cpisz@austin.rr.com> - 2011-09-13 08:55 -0700
  Re: Memory Leak Detection Noah Roberts <roberts.noah@gmail.com> - 2011-09-13 09:13 -0700
  Re: Memory Leak Detection Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2011-09-13 12:36 -0500
  Re: Memory Leak Detection "AnonMail2005@gmail.com" <anonmail2005@gmail.com> - 2011-09-13 11:45 -0700
    Re: Memory Leak Detection Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2011-09-14 13:33 +0900
      Re: Memory Leak Detection Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2011-09-14 06:06 +0000
        Re: Memory Leak Detection Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2011-09-14 15:24 +0900
        Re: Memory Leak Detection Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-14 20:29 +1200
        Re: Memory Leak Detection Marc <marc.glisse@gmail.com> - 2011-09-14 20:11 +0000
  Re: Memory Leak Detection Goran <goran.pusic@gmail.com> - 2011-09-14 00:38 -0700
    Re: Memory Leak Detection Christopher <cpisz@austin.rr.com> - 2011-09-14 08:22 -0700
      Re: Memory Leak Detection Goran <goran.pusic@gmail.com> - 2011-09-15 01:09 -0700
        Re: Memory Leak Detection Christopher <cpisz@austin.rr.com> - 2011-09-16 14:30 -0700

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