[Scummvm-devel] Memory leaks

[yotam barnoy]

Thanks. Unfortunately I don't use Linux or OS X, and it doesn't seem like
there are too many easy Windows alternatives.


On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Johannes Schickel <lordhoto at scummvm.org>wrote:

> yotam barnoy wrote:
>
>>
>> I don't really know the tools to do this measurement properly (other than
>> some hacks that could take a while), but using Process Explorer on Windows,
>> it seems like several of the engines are no longer cleaning up after
>> themselves properly. Scumm may be the worst offender (CoMI itself for
>> instance) but possibly also Teen Agent and some others.
>>
>
> It should be pretty easy to use valgrind (http://valgrind.org/) on x86 or
> amd64 Linux or Intel OS X (I think it works nowadays on that too) to do
> memory leak checking. It also features a nice output including call-stack
> for the leak allocations.
>
> // Johannes
>
>
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