Benefits

• Finds memory errors before they become runtime problems
• Finds common errors during 64 bit porting
• Helps optimize memory usage of applications
• Reduces development and support costs
• Easily integrates with regression test suites in “smoke alarm” mode
• Provides detailed stack traces of errors to help understand their causes

Features

• Detection of memory corruption on heap and stack
• Detection of uninitialized variables, pointers, and objects
• Detection of memory leaks and other memory allocation/free errors
• STL checking** for proper usage of STL containers and related memory errors
• Compile-time checks for type- and size-related errors
• Runtime tracing of function calls
• GUI and command line interface
• Memory error checking in 3rd party static and dynamic libraries
• Direct interfaces with Visual Studio debugger

**Available for any Unix users with GCC 3.0 and above.