What's a good & easy way to check for memory leaks

There are tons of free and commercial ones. You may want to check freshmeat or do a search on your favorite search engine.

You may also want to check this (kinda outdated, dec/2000) article on slashdot about tools for checking memory leaks (slashdot is frequented more by the linux crowd, so most tools will be for linux/unix. There is all kind of people though.

http://www.slashdot.org/askslashdot/00/12/20/0438234.shtml

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I like to wrap new, delete, malloc, realloc, etc...  and pipe a delimeted output of ptr values, and sizes to a file for debugging.  You can then do a sort and a regular expression search to see if there is anything hanging out there that is not getting cleaned up properly.

There are also a few good debug classes out there that will provide some good info (and the output can help you sort out the memory stuff more quickly), but they require some extra work on your part to implement properly.  I have one that I like to use, but can't find a link to it anywhere.  If you want to look at it, post your e-mail and I will send it to you.

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However he is not telling you a very important point that is likely to be the problem with your code.  (It IS the problem with the code he posted.)

dynamic_cast uses RTTI and RTTI is only guaranteed to work on a class that has at least one fivrtual function.  Do you have a virutal function defined in your base class?

The best way of finding a memory leak is by using a software called PURIFY from RATIONAL softwares. It gives u the details of all memory related information for a piece of code or a application.

So that is the answer then?  Nothing else posted would solve the problem?

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