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Suddenly noticed that while running, memory consumption is slowly but steadily creeping up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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which can only mean one thing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Well, then we need to find (detect) and fix it (or them). Some sort of memory leak detection tool would help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Visual Studio offers it’s own set of “CRT debug heap functions”. However, I was unable to get it to work. Then I found<\/p>\n\n\n\n
by KindDragon<\/a>, developed specifically for unmanaged C++<\/strong> (C#\/.NET will require another tools). You can download it here<\/a>. It’s free. Works with VS 2022 just fine. Easy to install and to use. However, couple suggestions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Installation<\/strong>. Though everything is pretty straight forward, still:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Deployment<\/strong>. We have to specify in the Project where to look for DLL and LIB libraries and for VLD header:<\/p>\n\n\n\n (or x64? depending on your project)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ok – Apply – Ok<\/p>\n\n\n\n (or x64?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ok – Apply – Ok<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Build and run. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Then stop. If you have memory leaks, they will be reported as<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The beauty of VLD is that it shows specific line where leacked memory was allocated plus full call stack. Now, all you need – is to figure out where in your code you supposed <\/em>to release it and why you didn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In my case, despite all expectations, instead of couple minor accidentally overlooked leaks, it revealed me a bunch (around 10) of serious logical<\/em> discrepancies…<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Took 2 days to fix them all. But now – No memory leaks detected<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Suddenly noticed that while running, memory consumption is slowly but steadily creeping up: which can only mean one thing: Well, then we need to find (detect) and fix it (or them). Some sort of memory leak detection tool would help. Visual Studio offers it’s own set of “CRT debug heap functions”. However, I was unable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-side-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingagame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingagame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingagame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingagame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingagame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/writingagame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3591,"href":"https:\/\/writingagame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/3591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingagame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingagame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingagame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingagame.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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