Is there a gnu/free/share version of Purify for Linux out there?

For the hobbyist spending over $2K is too much. I looked at electric fence but it has limited C++ support. No. Purify is a very unique product. Nick mentioned Valgrind which is an excellent product. Last year, one of our members was having difficulty with memory leaks in his company's code (used in a telco switch). None of the tools, like Valgrind helped at all until (at my suggestion) he downloaded a trial version of Purify that found the problem in less than 5 minutes, and

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:19:30 -0800 (PST) babu Avedissian wrote: the problem was in the telco's code not in his company's code. His company then plunked down the bucks to buy Purify. The issue with C++ memory is that there are C++ verbs, new and delete which can also be overloaded. New and delete are generally layered on malloc(3) and free(3), but it is difficult to track these. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9