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From: ls@barracuda.engr.sgi.com (Luigi Semenzato)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Purify-like tools for FreeBSD?
Date: 2 Jun 1995 23:28:20 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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In article <3qnm7o$pjp@shore.shore.net>, witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow) writes:
|> I know purify isn't ported to FreeBSD.  Is there anything like
|> it that is?

Many years ago Ben Zorn wrote a memory profiler (mprof) that
could also detect memory leaks and point to their source.
It's described in a USENIX conference proceedings.  I don't
know if it's still supported, but you can ask him at
zorn@cs.colorado.edu.    ---Luigi