Memory Leak Detection in Sun Solaris OS

Embedded applications with a long running life time particularly require a high degree of reliability. Many types of weaknesses residing in software can reduce the reliability, but memory leaks are prominent sources of software weaknesses for long ...

This paper presents Sniper, an automated memory leak detection tool for C/C++ production software. To track the staleness of allocated memory (which is a clue to potential leaks) with little overhead (mostly <3%), Sniper leverages instruction sampling ...

Memory leaks are a major threat in modern software systems. They occur if objects are unintentionally kept alive longer than necessary and are often indicated by continuously growing data structures.

While there are various state-of-the-art memory ...