[Lazarus] Christmas present for Windows lazarus developers : Memproof instaler 2.2MB

[Peter E Williams]

Hi Marco and all,

see comments below

Fond Regards, Peter Eric WILLIAMS
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On 24 December 2010 22:39, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:11:20PM +0100, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> > > Here is a link to Memproof_installer.zip (2.2MB).
> > >
> > [snip]
> > > Memproof will show all memory assignments and memory leaks. It will
> also jump to the line in your source code where the memory leak variable was
> created.
>

Yes, this is an excellent feature of it. You can watch all the variable and
constant allocations AS your program is being run from within memproof.


> > > You then need to decide where to call Free or FreeAndNil for the
> object(s) which you created and forgot to free, causing the memory leak(s).
> >
> > While it is a nice gesture to give presents, I don't see the practical
> use.
> > FPC contains this feature out of the box, you can just compile with -gl.
>

Is there a tutorial on how to use this? My application which I am currently
developing are for Lazarus not Free Pascal so I would need something which
has a GUI interface ?!? Or am I wrong?

>
> Afaik memproof (which is like AQTime-lite) needs explicitely debug format
> support, and that's why it doesn't work after D7. For decent traces it also
> required the TD32 debuginfo to be turned on, and I doubt it understands
> stabs or dwarf.
>

Yes, correct. You need to [ ] Optimization (uncheck) and [x] TD32 debug info
(check it) and there is probably another option also. Please install it and
read the help file.

stabs or dwarf are new technologies to me. I know nothing about these
things.
:(

I think that I will reinstall Delphi 5 Enterprise and Memproof on my Mint 10
computer with WINE 1.3 and see if it works.

PEW



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