Mike Bresnahan wrote: If you don't mind commercial software ParaSoft Insure is a very nice replacement for Rational Purify and it runs on Linux. At the time (early 2000) I thought it was at least as good as Purify - though I only evaluated it as I could not get full approval for a license purchase. I remember thinking that if I was going to develop commercial software on Linux I would buy a copy. sjp > Does anyone know of an equivalent of Rational Purify for GCC/Linux? Purify > is a wonderful debugging tool for C/C++ that detects bugs such as freeing > memory twice, reading/writing past the end of an array, leaking memory, etc. > It accomplishes this by editing object code; inserting debugging > instructions directly into the .o's. Last I was doing GCC/Linux development > several years ago, no such beast existed, but a lot has changed since then. > The best there was back then consisted of various drop in replacements for > malloc/free and other C library functions. The fatal flaws with these tools > is that none of them produce full stack traces automatically and they > require a recompilation of the source code. The problem with Purify is that > very few compiler/platform combinations are supported and GCC/Linux is not > one of them. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-devel mailing list > tclug-devel at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-devel