A technique for tracing memory leaks in C++

  • Authors:
  • Steven J. Beaty

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGPLAN OOPS Messenger
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

Dynamic memory usage in C++ can lead to unrecovered allocations. A method of overloading the builtin new and delete functions is introduced that can ameliorate this problem.