Tool for memory leak detection

[divbabi]

Can anyone suggest me a good tool for memory leak detection on hp-ux?

[ranganath ramachandra]

WDB implements memory leak checking. You will find documentation and a webcast at http://www.hp.com/go/wdb .

[divbabi]

How about dmalloc?Is wdb better than dmalloc?

[Dennis Handly]

>How about dmalloc? Is wdb better than dmalloc?

It is much easier to use.

[divbabi]

Is MEMCHECK available for hp-ux?

[Laurent Menase]

memcheck looks like to be working on hpux 11.11/11.23 hppa 2.0 not itanium.

look at wdb it works well.

[Ph Vouters]

If for HP-UX IA64 and if it suits your needs, have a look to http://vouters.dyndns.org/tima/Linux-OpenVMS-HP-UX-IA64-Displaying_memory_leaks.html The PA-RISC version is currently being worked upon.

Philippe

[Ph Vouters]

If for HP-UX PA-RISC, the short answer is to recompile all your codes using GNU gcc/g++ or use HP cc/aCC + wdb. The long answer is as long as HP won't document the changes it has brought and brings to GNU gdb, there is very little chance that addr2line from GNU bintuils will ever support the HP cc/aCC compilers (both on PA-RISC and IA64).

[Dennis Handly]

>as long as HP won't document the changes it has brought and brings to GNU gdb

This is opensource, you can download the sources and see the changes.

[Ph Vouters]

Dennis,

The changes HP brought to GNU gdb are not licenced FSF. Hence they can't be freely incorporated into GNU gdb and as a consequence into GNU binutils. So as long as these changes are not officially published, the binutils tools won't work with the HP/HP-UX compilers (both IA64 and PA-RISC).

For my LeakTracer code, as long as GNU binutils addr2line doesn't work with the HP cc/aCC compilers, there is no chance HP-UX/PA-RISC will ever be supported.

Regards,

Philippe