tools to determine memory leak in a c/c++ code [closed]

Question

On the unix environment, are there any tools which can easily analyse the code and mention there is a chance of memory leakage in certain sections of the code. HPUX/AIX/Solaris

Answer 1

If you're talking about static analysis then there's cppcheck (among many others)

If you're talking about a runtime checker (which will be way more accurate and reliable than static analysis) there's valgrind

There's loads of other tools available. Check out the links above for more information

Purify will work on AIX (though it's not free.

HP has the wdb debugger, and it's capable of detecting memory leaks.

Answer 2

I use Insure and it works well. For more information use http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/products/article.jsp?articleId=530