Feature request:  Memory leak checker
lazarus / 6-IDE-CodeTools

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IgD · 2005-02-13 17:46

With Delphi, I had worked with a cool memory leak checker called
SleuthQA that was made by a now defunct company (TurboPower).  Could
something like this be added and integrated into the Lazarus IDE?
 This would be great for development of applications and also
development of Lazarus/FPC!

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Vincent Snijders · 2005-02-14 08:43

I don't know SleuthQA, but fpc has a memleak dectection unit, called
heaptrc.

In lazarus, go to Project -> Compiler Options -> Linking -> Use
Heaptrc Unit.

Run your program and at the end of run-time some statistics are show.

It might be a good idea to turn of Win32 Gui Application in the same
tab, if you have a lot of memleaks.
I advice to turn on line info, because that helps locating the
memleak.

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skywriter · 2007-11-09 07:29

What did you mean " turn of Win32 Gui Application in the same tab"?

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Vincent Snijders · 2007-11-09 08:25

Uncheck the option on the linking tab (-WG). Otherwise you get a lot
of message boxes at program end.