Dr. Memory Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Codevis - New Opensource Software for Analyzing Large Codebases (C++/MIT)

  I look forward to trying this out. It might be a good test-case; this codebase is so convoluted it has actually triggered internal crashes in some analysis tools I've tried on it. For example starting the application under Dr. Memory (https://drmemory.org/) results in a hung process. Source: 10 months ago

• Tools or strategies to debug freezes in a game?

  Profiling the game and looking at what time is spent on during the freezes is a start. Checkout https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/devtest/event-tracing-for-windows--etw- / https://drmemory.org/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Autodiff in C (need help fixing memory leak)

  Yes, you can use Dr. Memory, works out of the box on windows with mingw and visualcpp. Source: about 1 year ago

• -memory-safe C++ - Jim Radigan - CppCon 2022

  Other, heavier, tools exist to the same affect that work cross platform - Dr. Memory being my preference. Source: over 1 year ago

• What's in your tool belt?

  I like to use Dr. Memory - excellent Valgrind alternative for Windows users. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Method for finding memory leaks on Windows

  There is also a valgrind equivalent for windows: Dr. Memory. I've been using this program for years and it works fairly well, it can detect:. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Valgrind

  Are you aware there are alternatives to valgrind on Windows ? Like DrMemory, or using -fsanitize=.... Options of gcc. Source: over 2 years ago

• Linus and Luke talk about their Linux challenge | Problems with Dolphin and game installation

  Belatedly, I found a strace.exe hidden in the freely-downloadable Dr. Memory debugging package. Needing an uncommon third-party package to do anything is also a cornerstone of the Windows culture. Source: over 2 years ago

• Trouble reproducing bug

  I don't know what debugging tools you use, but I strongly advised you to use a low-level debugging tool that can sandbox your program and check every memory access. On Windows, I personally use DrMemory, which is quite good (checkout the nightly build, they are way more up to date). Source: almost 3 years ago