GCC memory leak detection equivalent to Microsoft crtdbg.h?

Question

After many years of working on a general-purpose C++ library using the Microsoft MSVC compiler in Visual Studio, we are now porting it to Linux/Mac OS X (pray for us). I hav

Answer 1

Maybe you could use the Boehm garbage collector as a leak detection tool:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/leak.html

From the site:

#include "leak_detector.h"

main() {
    int *p[10];
    int i;
    /* GC_find_leak = 1; for new collector versions not     */
    /* compiled with -DFIND_LEAK.               */
    for (i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {
    p[i] = malloc(sizeof(int)+i);
    }
    for (i = 1; i < 10; ++i) {
    free(p[i]);
    }
    for (i = 0; i < 9; ++i) {
    p[i] = malloc(sizeof(int)+i);
    }
    CHECK_LEAKS();
}   

(you get notified via stderr)