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Memwatch - Memory leak and corruption detection tool

Memwatch is a fault tolerant (can repair its own data structures) memory leak and corruption detection tool. You add a header file to your souce code files, and compile with MEMWATCH defined or not. It can detect double-frees and erroneous frees, unfreed memory, overflow and underflow to memory buffers, and wild pointer writes. It collects allocation statistics on the application, module, or line level.

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Web pagehttp://www.linkdata.se/
Source tarballhttp://www.linkdata.se/memwatch-2.71.tar.gz
Version 2.71 (stable) released on 2003-10-03
Licensed under PublicDomain.
This is not a GNU package.

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User guide included
Support contacts

Help List<johan@linkdata.se>
Developer List<johan@linkdata.se>
Bug List<johan@linkdata.se>

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Related information

Interfacescommand line
Source languagesANSI C
Related programsMemCheck Deluxe, checker, Electric Fence

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-05-03
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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