Valgrind Memory Leak Detection

Overview

Use Valgrind to detect memory leaks and analyze memory usage in C/C++ programs with detailed reports

Prerequisites

• Terminal access
• C programming
• Valgrind installed

Instructions

This tool is very useful to check memory leaks problems in your code.

If you don't have this tool yet, you can easily install it with:

sudo apt install valgrind

Here you have the command I normally use:

valgrind --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=all --track-origins=yes --verbose --log-file=log.txt ./program

Note: if your program is "main", then your command should end up with ./main instead of ./program

Troubleshooting

If you encounter any issues:

1. Verify all prerequisites are installed
2. Check command syntax carefully
3. Ensure you have necessary permissions

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