Of Memory Management, Heap Corruption, and C++

Question

So, I need some help. I am working on a project in C++. However, I think I have somehow managed to corrupt my heap. This is based on the fact that I added an std::stri

Answer 1

Run Purify.

It is a near-magical tool that will report when you are clobbering memory you shouldn't be touching, leaking memory by not freeing things, double-freeing, etc.

It works at the machine code level, so you don't even have to have the source code.

One of the most enjoyable vendor conference calls I was ever on was when Purify found a memory leak in their code, and we were able to ask, "is it possible you're not freeing memory in your function foo()" and hear the astonishment in their voices.

They thought we were debugging gods but then we let them in on the secret so they could run Purify before we had to use their code. :-)

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/purify/unix/

(It's pretty pricey but they have a free eval download)