Simplest way to count instances of an object

Question

I would like to know the exact number of instances of certain objects allocated at certain point of execution. Mostly for hunting possible memory leaks(I mostly use RAII, al

Answer 1

We used to have the solution of a base class with internal counter and derive from it, but we changed it all into boost::shared_ptr, it keeps a reference counter and it cleans up memory for you. The boost smart pointer family is quite useful: boost smart pointers