How to detect a memory leak?

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I am pretty new to programming and I want to know how to detect a memory leak? If you are going to recommend a utility, please try to find one that works on Mac OS X Lion.

P.S. I tried valgrind, it doesn't work on 10.7/Lion.

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 14 '11 at 23:43

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Valgrind is an excellent cross platform tool http://valgrind.org/

And best of all its Open Source

answered Oct 14 '11 at 23:43

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 15 '11 at 01:25

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I'd recommend Instruments (which comes with Xcode). I admit I've never used it for C, but works well with Objective-C.

answered Oct 15 '11 at 01:25

ldav1s

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Valgrind [has some issues](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35964228/valgrind-and-pthreads-on-os-x-el-capitan-cant-make-a-smallest-working-exampl) with pthreads on a Mac running ~10.12. – datUser Jun 29 '18 at 13:40

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 14 '11 at 23:45

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valgrind - http://valgrind.org/ is pretty good

or mudflap - http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/HomePage but i'm not sure if mudflap works on Mac OS though ,it works on most the linux platform, you could try =)

answered Oct 14 '11 at 23:45

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How to detect a memory leak?

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