memory leak detection patch
Andreas Mohr
andi at rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de
Thu Sep 22 02:51:55 CDT 2005
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 12:08:20AM +0900, Mike McCormack wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This patch is written for MSI, but could be adapted to other code. It
> keeps a linked list of allocated memory and removes free'd memory from
> the list.
>
> It requires that you change all the HeapAlloc's or mallocs in a dll to
> msi_alloc (for example), but can detect unfree'd memory and invalid free's.
>
> I have discovered quite a few problems in my own code with this patch,
> so hopefully somebody else will find it useful too.
First, thanks for fixing so many leaks!
I think that we should concentrate on making valgrind the default leak
detection method in Wine, however.
Reasons:
- it catches many, many leaks *without any reprogramming effort*
- it catches many, many other problems
- it has other tools which are very useful, too (cache profiling, ...)
- it's so much better than any other "clever hack" that people come up with
in 2 hours
Thus IMHO valgrind should work perfectly with Wine, and it should be the
first thing that pops up when people want to do things like this: IOW
it should be documented rather prominently which are some useful ways of
using it in combination with Wine.
OTOH we might want to put a safety net in place in case valgrind somehow
becomes impossible to use in combination with Wine, so maybe we should
investigate a second leak tracer, too.
Or am I completely mistaken here?
Andreas
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