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From: Erik Winkler <ewinkler@erols.com>
To: Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com>
Cc: mnorton@cisco.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Purify or Comparable???
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 14:10:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39DB7292.3795DC65@erols.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1001004171407.ZM31953@saguaro.lan


I've used purify in a SunOS environment and it worked great.  Combined with
Pure Coverage I was able to test all my code for memory leaks.  I'm not
sure if it's available for LinuxPPC, but maybe for Linux i386.

Erik

Kevin Buettner wrote:

> On Oct 4,  5:44am, Michael Norton wrote:
>
> > What software tool is recommended for examining memory leaks in code?
> > Does a close cousin of Purify exist for LinuxPPC/ What do you coders
> > recommend?
>
> I've never used Purify, so I can't offer a comparison, but...
>
> I've found that dmalloc works quite well for debugging memory
> allocation related problems.  See http://dmalloc.com/.
>
> Kevin
>


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      reply	other threads:[~2000-10-04 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-04  9:44 Purify or Comparable??? Michael Norton
2000-10-04 17:14 ` Kevin Buettner
2000-10-04 18:10   ` Erik Winkler [this message]

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