Simple C implementation to track memory malloc/free?

Question

programming language: C platform: ARM Compiler: ADS 1.2

I need to keep track of simple melloc/free calls in my project. I just need to get very basic id

Answer 1

You could always use valgrind instead of rolling your own implementation. If you don't care about the amount of memory you allocate you could use an even simpler implementation: (I did this really quickly so there could be errors and I realize that it is not the most efficient implementation. The pAllocedStorage should be given an initial size and increase by some factor for a resize etc. but you get the idea.)

EDIT: I missed that this was for ARM, to my knowledge valgrind is not available on ARM so that might not be an option.

static size_t indexAllocedStorage = 0;
static size_t *pAllocedStorage = NULL;
static unsigned int free_calls = 0; 
static unsigned long long int total_mem_alloced = 0; 

void * 
my_malloc(size_t size){
    size_t *temp;
    void *p = malloc(size);
    if(p == NULL){
    fprintf(stderr,"my_malloc malloc failed, %s", strerror(errno));
    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    total_mem_alloced += size;

    temp = (size_t *)realloc(pAllocedStorage, (indexAllocedStorage+1) * sizeof(size_t));
    if(temp == NULL){
        fprintf(stderr,"my_malloc realloc failed, %s", strerror(errno));
         exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    pAllocedStorage = temp; 
    pAllocedStorage[indexAllocedStorage++] = (size_t)p;

    return p;
}

void 
my_free(void *p){
    size_t i;
    int found = 0;

    for(i = 0; i < indexAllocedStorage; i++){
    if(pAllocedStorage[i] == (size_t)p){
        pAllocedStorage[i] = (size_t)NULL;
        found = 1;
        break;
        }
    }

    if(!found){
        printf("Free Called on unknown\n");
    }

    free_calls++;
    free(p);
}

void 
free_check(void) {
    size_t i;

    printf("checking freed memeory\n");
    for(i = 0; i < indexAllocedStorage; i++){   
        if(pAllocedStorage[i] != (size_t)NULL){
            printf( "Memory leak %X\n", (unsigned int)pAllocedStorage[i]);
            free((void *)pAllocedStorage[i]);
        }
    }

    free(pAllocedStorage);
    pAllocedStorage = NULL;
}