[CMake] Open Source Memory Checker

[Steve Huston]

> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Steve Huston 
> <shuston at riverace.com> wrote:
> >> If linux has valgrind which is an open source memory checker, is
> >> there any equivalent on Windows?  I noticed ctest supports
purify,
> >> but it looks like that's only a pay solution.  Am I out of luck
> >> trying to find a memory checker that's open source on Windows?
> >
> > I've not heard of any. But IMO, Purify is worth the money 
> IBM charges
> > for it - you'll save more than that in time spent tracking 
> down memory
> > errors.
> >
> 
> Does it work well with complex applications? I have used
boundschecker
> in the past (years ago) and now memoryvalidator but I find that
these
> are very difficult to use when there are thousands of memory
> allocations tracked. I see way too many false positives (stl, boost,
> qt,mfc ...) and other issues. Also with these the memory corruption
> testing is way too slow to be helpful. It works fine on a small test
> project but fails miserably in an application with 1 million lines
of
> code.

You can get a free trial and see how it works out for you.

-Steve