Lightweight memory leak debugging on linux

Question

I looked for existing answers first and saw that Valgrind is everyone’s favorite tool for memory leak debugging on linux. Unfortunately Valgrind does not seem

Answer 1

Surprisingly, I was unable to find anything like Microsoft's UMDH in open-source domain or available for immediate download. (I also looked at Google Heap Leak Checker but it is more like Valgrind rather than to UMDH). So I ended up writing the tool myself using malloc instrumentation project as a reference point:

https://github.com/glagolig/heapwatch

The tool has number of limitations, but it worked just fine for my purposes.