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    Memory leak detection

    Hi,
    I am developing an application which contains of a binary executable and couple of DLLs.

    I do see that in some scenarios I have memory leaks. Since they are not good I want to fix them.

    Googling pointed me to this. What I'd like to know is how to define this when the application have multiple DLLs.

    1. Should I define _CRTDBG_MAP_ALLOC, only once in my main application start up or I need to define it on every DLL loading?
    2. The same with the:

    Code:
    _CrtSetDbgFlag ( _CRTDBG_ALLOC_MEM_DF | _CRTDBG_LEAK_CHECK_DF );
    ?

    The application is a GUI one developed with wxWidgets, so it has 1 entry and 1 exit points.

    Thank you.

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    Re: Memory leak detection

    The following comment from the link leads me to believe _CRTDBG_ALLOC__MEM_DF only needs to be defined once.

    "By default, _CrtDumpMemoryLeaks outputs the memory-leak report to the Debug pane of the Output window. If you use a library, the library might reset the output to another location."

    If you are still in doubt, you can test for it by creating a memory leak in one of your DLLs and see if it spews to the output window.

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    Re: Memory leak detection

    Hi,
    It is not a matter of reporting the leak - I see it present.
    What I'm after is the place where allocation occurs.

    I tried to run VLD, but got a crash on the application start-up. So thought of trying with the MSVC way.

    I just tried to put those 3 lines in the application constructor but didn't see any reports of the line numbers for where allocation occur.

    I will try to place them in the every DLL initialization routine.

    Thank you.

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    Re: Memory leak detection

    Create a test solution with exe and dll projects, introduce leaks, and get it working there.

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