• memory_leak_detector
• Building
• Testing
  • No memory leak test
  • Memory leak test
• Checklist

memory_leak_detector

Detect memory leaks in C by wrapping raw malloc and free APIs

• Keeps track of allocated memory using generic linked list

Building

cmake -B build -G Ninja

Testing

• Tested with GCC (10.2) and MSVC (16.8.2) compiler on Windows
• Tested with GCC (9.3) compiler compiler on Linux

No memory leak test

# Enter the build folder
cd build

# Build the project
cmake --build .

# Run the test
ctest -V --output-on-failure

Memory leak test

• Modify test/test_mldmalloc.c
• Allocate memory using mld_malloc and do not mld_free
• Run the above commands for default testing

# Enter the build folder
cd build

# Build the project
cmake --build .

# Run the test
ctest --output-on-failure

Checklist

• Location (pointer) of memory leak
• Data size of memory leak
• Unit-Testing
• Code coverage
• CI/CD