Linux c/c++上常用内存泄露检测工具有valgrind, Rational  purify。Valgrind免费。Valgrind 可以在 32 位或 64 位 PowerPC/Linux 内核上工作。
Valgrind工具包包含多个工具，如Memcheck,Cachegrind,Helgrind,  Callgrind，Massif。下面分别介绍个工具的作用：
Memcheck  工具主要检查下面的程序错误：
? 使用未初始化的内存 (Use of uninitialised  memory)
? 使用已经释放了的内存 (Reading/writing memory  after it has been free’d)
? 使用超过 malloc分配的内存空间(Reading/writing off the  end of malloc’d blocks)
? 对堆栈的非法访问 (Reading/writing  inappropriate areas on the stack)
? 申请的空间是否有释放 (Memory leaks – where pointers to  malloc’d blocks are lost  forever)
?  malloc/free/new/delete申请和释放内存的匹配(Mismatched use of  malloc/new/new [] vs free/delete/delete [])
? src和dst的重叠(Overlapping src and dst  pointers in memcpy() and related functions)
Valgrind不检查静态分配数组的使用情况。
Valgrind占用了更多的内存--可达两倍于你程序的正常使用量。如果你用Valgrind来检测使用大量内存的程序就会遇到问题，它可能会用很长的时间来运行测试
2.1.  下载安装
http://www.valgrind.org
安装
./configure;make;make install
2.2. 编译程序
被检测程序加入 –g   -fno-inline  编译选项保留调试信息。

2.3.  内存泄露检测
$ valgrind --tool=memcheck  --log-file=/home/trunk/valgrind_log_all --leak-check=full --error-limit=no  --show-leak-kinds=all /opt/lim/bin/limserver

其中--leak-check=full  指的是完全检查内存泄漏，--show-reachable=yes是显示内存泄漏的地点，--trace-children=yes是跟入子进程。当程序正常退出的时候valgrind自然会输出内存泄漏的信息。

1.内存泄露：

#include <stdio.h>void function()
{    int *p = (int*)malloc(10*sizeof(int));    p[10] = 0;
}int main()
{    function();    return 0;
}

相关日志：

==20220== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==20220== Copyright (C) 2002-2010, and GNU GPL‘d, by Julian Seward et al.
==20220== Using Valgrind-3.6.1-Debian and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==20220== Command: ./test
==20220== Parent PID: 20160
==20220==
==20220== Invalid write of size 4
==20220==    at 0x80483FF: function (in /mnt/Documents/Training/valgrind/test)
==20220==    by 0x8048411: main (in /mnt/Documents/Training/valgrind/test)
==20220==  Address 0x41be050 is 0 bytes after a block of size 40 alloc‘d
==20220==    at 0x4028876: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236)
==20220==    by 0x80483F5: function (in /mnt/Documents/Training/valgrind/test)
==20220==    by 0x8048411: main (in /mnt/Documents/Training/valgrind/test)
==20220==
==20220==
==20220== HEAP SUMMARY:
==20220==     in use at exit: 40 bytes in 1 blocks
==20220==   total heap usage: 1 allocs, 0 frees, 40 bytes allocated
==20220==
==20220== LEAK SUMMARY:
==20220==    definitely lost: 40 bytes in 1 blocks
==20220==    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==20220==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==20220==    still reachable: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==20220==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==20220== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory
==20220==
==20220== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==20220== ERROR SUMMARY: 1 errors from 1 contexts (suppressed: 11 from 6)

2.使用未初始化的内存

#include <stdio.h>int main()
{    int a;    if (a==1)
    {        printf("a==%d\n",a);
    }    return 0;
}

日志分析：

==20345== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==20345== Copyright (C) 2002-2010, and GNU GPL‘d, by Julian Seward et al.
==20345== Using Valgrind-3.6.1-Debian and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==20345== Command: ./test
==20345==
==20345== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==20345==    at 0x80483F2: main (in /mnt/Documents/Training/valgrind/test)
==20345==
==20345==
==20345== HEAP SUMMARY:
==20345==     in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==20345==   total heap usage: 0 allocs, 0 frees, 0 bytes allocated
==20345==
==20345== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==20345==
==20345== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==20345== Use --track-origins=yes to see where uninitialised values come from
==20345== ERROR SUMMARY: 1 errors from 1 contexts (suppressed: 11 from 6)

可以使用--track-origins=yes 得到更多的信息

3.内存读写越界

#include <stdio.h>int main()
{    int *a = (int*)malloc(5*sizeof(int));    a[5] = 1;    return 0;
}

==20368== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==20368== Copyright (C) 2002-2010, and GNU GPL‘d, by Julian Seward et al.
==20368== Using Valgrind-3.6.1-Debian and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==20368== Command: ./test
==20368==
==20368== Invalid write of size 4
==20368==    at 0x8048404: main (in /mnt/Documents/Training/valgrind/test)
==20368==  Address 0x41be03c is 0 bytes after a block of size 20 alloc‘d
==20368==    at 0x4028876: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236)
==20368==    by 0x80483F8: main (in /mnt/Documents/Training/valgrind/test)
==20368==
==20368==
==20368== HEAP SUMMARY:
==20368==     in use at exit: 20 bytes in 1 blocks
==20368==   total heap usage: 1 allocs, 0 frees, 20 bytes allocated
==20368==
==20368== LEAK SUMMARY:
==20368==    definitely lost: 20 bytes in 1 blocks
==20368==    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==20368==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==20368==    still reachable: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==20368==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==20368== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory
==20368==
==20368== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==20368== ERROR SUMMARY: 1 errors from 1 contexts (suppressed: 11 from 6)

4.内存申请释放管理错误

#include <stdio.h>int main()
{    int *a = new int[5];    /*free(a);*/    delete a;    return 0;
}

==20387== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==20387== Copyright (C) 2002-2010, and GNU GPL‘d, by Julian Seward et al.
==20387== Using Valgrind-3.6.1-Debian and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==20387== Command: ./test
==20387==
==20387== Mismatched free() / delete / delete []
==20387==    at 0x4027919: operator delete(void*) (vg_replace_malloc.c:387)
==20387==    by 0x8048498: main (in /mnt/Documents/Training/valgrind/test)
==20387==  Address 0x42f2028 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 20 alloc‘d
==20387==    at 0x4027F65: operator new[](unsigned int) (vg_replace_malloc.c:299)
==20387==    by 0x8048488: main (in /mnt/Documents/Training/valgrind/test)
==20387==
==20387==
==20387== HEAP SUMMARY:
==20387==     in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==20387==   total heap usage: 1 allocs, 1 frees, 20 bytes allocated
==20387==
==20387== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==20387==
==20387== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==20387== ERROR SUMMARY: 1 errors from 1 contexts (suppressed: 17 from 6)

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