Question

Is there anything in Visual Studio that will report memory leaks like Codeguard?

eg:

Error 00001. 0x300010 (Thread 0x0FA4): Resource leak: The object (0xC65D84) was never deleted  The object (0x00C65D84) [size: 4 bytes] was created with new | element2.cpp line 3: | #include 'element2.h' |  |>CS225::Element2::Element2(int _val) : p_val(new int(_val)) { } |  | CS225::Element2::Element2(const Element2& rhs)  Call Tree:    0x0040E3A7(=bcc_cg.exe:0x01:00D3A7) element2.cpp#3    0x00409116(=bcc_cg.exe:0x01:008116) element-factory.h#19    0x0040D964(=bcc_cg.exe:0x01:00C964) array.cpp#87    0x00405308(=bcc_cg.exe:0x01:004308) driver.cpp#394    0x004054B5(=bcc_cg.exe:0x01:0044B5) driver.cpp#415    0x00405522(=bcc_cg.exe:0x01:004522) driver.cpp#420  ------------------------------------------ Error 00002. 0x300010 (Thread 0x0FA4): Resource leak: The object (0xC65D58) was never deleted  The object (0x00C65D58) [size: 4 bytes] was created with new | element2.cpp line 6: |  | CS225::Element2::Element2(const Element2& rhs)  |>  : AbstractElement(), p_val(new int(*rhs.p_val))  | { } |  Call Tree:    0x0040E4B7(=bcc_cg.exe:0x01:00D4B7) element2.cpp#6    0x0040E652(=bcc_cg.exe:0x01:00D652) element2.cpp#26    0x0040D8CD(=bcc_cg.exe:0x01:00C8CD) array.cpp#81    0x00405308(=bcc_cg.exe:0x01:004308) driver.cpp#394    0x004054B5(=bcc_cg.exe:0x01:0044B5) driver.cpp#415    0x00405522(=bcc_cg.exe:0x01:004522) driver.cpp#420 

Answer 1

Built in, no. It has <crtdbg.h>, but it’s not as comprehensive as implied by your example. There are various add-ons that provide this functionality. Boundschecker is a well-known and popular one.