From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39DB7292.3795DC65@erols.com> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 14:10:27 -0400 From: Erik Winkler Reply-To: ewinkler@erols.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Buettner CC: mnorton@cisco.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Purify or Comparable??? References: <39DAFC02.52938515@cisco.com> <1001004171407.ZM31953@saguaro.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 > ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/