Heap corruption not detected by Valgrind or Electric Fence. Should I be suspicious? (C++)

Question

I recently encountered my first battle (solved) with heap corruption. On my linux machine at home the culprit code exits without error using valgrind and e

Answer 1

You don't understand what heap corruption is. In particular, memory leaks are not heap corruption.

The memory leak reported by Parallel Studio also appears bogus, and more likely to be a bug in Parallel Studio than in your program.