Ok.. first off, thanks for the toys.. Splint is nice.
Secondly.. it is telling me that I have memory leaks in a couple of
functions that send a string (char) to another function to return it
modified. For example:
act_comm.c:108:48: New fresh storage (type char *) passed as implicitly temp
(not released): capitalize(ch->name)
A memory leak has been detected. Storage allocated locally is not released
before the last reference to it is lost. (Use -mustfreefresh to inhibit
warning)
Thoughts on how to fix these errors?
- Valnir
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Bunting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Valnir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: Memory issues.
Hello,
Were you the one who issued the mstat command? If someone creates a
mob using OLC or adds a mobprog that isn't coded correctly, Issuing
the mstat command will cause the mud to crash.
Lastly, does anyone know of a way to find memory leaks?
Are you running on linux? If you, you should download GNU Lint and
also read the docs.. Lint will give you a ton of more infomation about
your mud over GDB. Lint will also tell you if sytax is wrong or
various other possibile warnings in your code that GDB won't or may
not catch. I rarely hear mention of this I guess since most people
rely on what is most popular or well known.. But read up on lint.. I
personally think it's great.
Links to great tools for Mud Developers.. The first 3 tools are for
Linux, The last one, API Monitor is for Windows.. A good program for
those using windows/mysql and Rom.
Valgrind:
The distribution currently includes five tools: two memory error
detectors, a thread error detector, a cache profiler and a heap
profiler.
http://valgrind.org/
Slint:
Splint is a tool for statically checking C programs for security
vulnerabilities and coding mistakes.
http://www.splint.org/
Data Display Debugger:
DDD is a graphical front-end for command-line debuggers such as GDB,
DBX, WDB, Ladebug, JDB, XDB, the Perl debugger, the bash debugger, or
the Python debugger. DDD displays data structures as graphs and plots.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ddd/
API Monitor for Windows Users:
API Monitor is a software that monitors and displays API calls made by
applications. Its a powerful tool for seeing how Windows and other
applications work or tracking down problems that you have in your own
applications.
http://www.rohitab.com/apimonitor/
Hope this helps,
Chris
