Re: how to track down GNUstep leaks on non-Apple platforms?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 25 Oct 2010, at 05:33, David Wetzel wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I have an GSWeb application that does not leak on OS X (using Apple's 
> Foundation and -base-add).
> I uses GDL2 and is heavily tested with Apple's instruments.
> 
> But on my NetBSD machine it seems to leak.
> How can I track this down?
> Is there anything like instruments?

I don't know about NetBSD specific general leak detection, but GNUstep-base has 
some stuff built in (see NSDebug.h) ... this will at least tell you what class 
of object is being leaked (unless the leak is in malloced memory rather than 
objects).
You might also be able to use valgrind if it's available.  It's a pretty good 
tool.
Apart from that there's normally some sort of leak detecting version of the 
malloc library available on most systems.