Alright, so I think my program might have a memory leak. It’s an SDL application, and it seems to have grown too large for me to manually pinpoint the leak. I searched around for a windows equivalent of Valgrind (I’m running Windows 7 x64 and using Visual Studio 2010), and eventually came across Visual Leak Detector. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to want to generate ay output.
I set up another project, an empty console application, and set up VLD the same way as in my SDL app. Upon running the program, VLD worked perfectly and caught every memory leak that I threw at it. But in the SDL app, it just outputs “Visual Leak Detector Version 2.2 installed.” at the beginning of the debug session and nothing else, even when I intentionally created a memory leak right in the main function.
The closest I can tell, it might have to do with SDL screwing with the program entry point. But that’s just a guess. Is there any way to get VLD to work with SDL?
You could try to
deleaker. It is a powerful tool for debugging memory leaks.