Question

I’m quite new to C++ but have some basic C knowledge. In my past C (university) projects, I used Valgrind to check for memleaks.

Now, with C++, is Valgrind a valid tool? Does C++ suffer the same problems concerning memleaks like C? Or are there even better tools to use in conjunction with C++?

Answer 1

I never use new and delete (or other forms of manual memory management) and I very rarely even use pointers. And I still have to wrestle with memory leaks invalid memory accesses.¹ Valgrind is an indispensable tool for me. Even more important than gdb.

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¹ As Viktor pointed out in a comment, producing memory leaks without manual memory management would be pretty weird (discounting circular references and other special cases).