Is there a good application (that has some kind of gui) for testing memory leaks in c code. I would really like to test my assignment/programme but being very new to this, i struggle with using the terminal to do things, especially using gdb for debugging (to me it feels like a blast from the past, where i could be using some visual debugger).
Thanks for the help
edit: platform doesn't matter - i am running everything ;)
Depending on the platform (you don't mention it) Valgrind is fantastic on Linux systems. It has no GUI, but doesn't need one.
Just run valgrind <path to your application + arguments>
and it will run your application and spit out any errors during memory operations.
Add the --leak-check=full
and --show-reachable=yes
options after valgrind
to get stack-traces of where your memory leaks originate.
Purify is a great application for this.
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