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Microsoft Visual Studio (2003/2005) informs about memory leakes in a module by setting the "leak check" bit, _CRTDBG_LEAK_CHECK_DF, to the debugger.

The memory leak information is printed on "Output" window.

[ This advantage is in "Debug" mode only. ]

Example

int _tmain()

{

int* ptr = NULL;

ptr = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int)*20);

for( int i=0; i<20; ++i )

ptr[i] = i;

#ifndef NDEBUG

int flag = _CrtSetDbgFlag(_CRTDBG_REPORT_FLAG); // Get current flag

flag |= _CRTDBG_LEAK_CHECK_DF; // Turn on leak-checking bit

_CrtSetDbgFlag(flag); // Set flag to the new value

#endif

//free(ptr);

printf("\n\nPress Enter...");

getch();

return 0;

}

If we run the above program, we can see the memory leak information in an "Output" window as follows...

Detected memory leaks!

Dumping objects ->

{56} normal block at 0x02D42D48, 80 bytes long.

Data: < > 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 03 00 00 00

Object dump complete.

Of course, the above information is not describes where the mem leak is present and in which file etc.., but the information is valid.

Related Tags:
Visual Studio, Memory Leaks, C++

Author: Manjunath G

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