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

I had the same problem when we started porting to the Mac. "Run with performance tool -> Leaks" was the only I found and I'm less than thrilled by it ... at least compared to CRTDEBUG. I understand there are some options (as described by others here), but eventually since we are multi platform, we're using Windows to look for the leaks.

Since you mention the static analyzer. We spent some time trying to figure out hot to get it running until we found that it only does C but not C++