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Memory Leak Detection in Embedded Systems

Issue 101

From Issue #101
September 2002

Aug 31, 2002  By Cal Erickson
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Cal discusses mtrace, dmalloc and memwatch—three easy-to-use tools that find most application program errors.
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Same memwatch log for the 2 application

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 12/19/2009 - 06:19.

Hi,

Will the 2 applications dump the memwatch logs in the same memwatch.log?

Yes, it will append the log

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/06/2010 - 02:12.

Yes, it will append the log to the existing memwatch.log file

doesn't work

gfengster's picture
Submitted by gfengster (not verified) on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 05:13.

The paper is good. But the link
ftp://ftp.ssc.com/pub/lj/listings/issue101/6059.tgz doesn't contain all files.
I can not prove the author is right.

Memleak

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Submitted by Ajit john (not verified) on Wed, 04/29/2009 - 06:14.

check the memory alocated and deallocated

one more tool for debugging memory leaks-Coverity Prevent

victor louis's picture
Submitted by victor louis (not verified) on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 23:56.

You can prevent memory leaks by watching for some common problems. Collection classes, such as hash tables and vectors, are common places to find the cause of a memory leak. This is particularly true if the class has been declared static and exists for the life of the application. . The prevalence of memory leak bugs has led to the development of a number of debugging tools to detect unreachable memory. Coverity Prevent is one of the tool that you can use for fixing these kinds of bugs. Coverity Prevent is also used by the Department of Homeland security to scan many open source projects. You can get more info at http://www.Coverity.com

How to Prevent memory leaks

victor louis's picture
Submitted by victor louis (not verified) on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 23:52.

You can prevent memory leaks by watching for some common problems. Collection classes, such as hash tables and vectors, are common places to find the cause of a memory leak. This is particularly true if the class has been declared static and exists for the life of the application. . The prevalence of memory leak bugs has led to the development of a number of debugging tools to detect unreachable memory. Coverity Prevent is one of the tool that you can use for fixing these kinds of bugs. Coverity Prevent is also used by the Department of Homeland security to scan many open source projects. You can get more info at http://www.Coverity.com

why advertise the article in

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 11/03/2004 - 13:03.

why advertise the article in an expensive book to only find that lj is nickeling and diming

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