Re: Memory Leak Detection

From	Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: Memory Leak Detection
Date	2011-09-14 15:24 +0900
Organization	NEC Electronics
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Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> writes:
> 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.

Sure, I do follow those guidelines -- and indeed they help greatly
(I've found my programs in "proper" C++ to be much less buggy than my
programs in C, or in "non-proper" C++) -- but nonetheless, in any
non-trivial program, bugs are present, and valgrind is a _very_ useful
tool for finding many of them.

-Miles

-- 
If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.  [George Carlin]

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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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