Need a tool to detect memory leaks in C code

Question

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 str

Answer 1

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 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.