Re: memoryleaks

[Matthias Andree <ma+balsa dt e-technik uni-dortmund de>]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Ali Akcaagac wrote:

> i've detected some major/minor memoryleaks in balsa
> that i would really appreciate beeing nailed down if
> there is the time.
> 
> well howto detect memoryleaks quite easy and reliable.
> 
> - get 'memprof' either from freshmeat or from gnome CVS.

I never used memprof for that, usually, efence, dmalloc or yamd would
do for me. Also note that some libcs have their own memory allocator
debugging, like GNU glibc 2.1.x/2.2.x (not sure about 2.0.x) or FreeBSD
4.x (not sure about older versions).

Is there something special about memprof that makes a 0.x.y version
worth recommending with so many "stable" memory checkers?

Thanks in advance,
Matthias