Is there an alternative to Valgrind on OS X Yosemite?

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Now that we OS X Yosemite is out, we have the same problem as always ... Valgrind doesn't work on OS X 10.10.

Is there a working alternative to Valgrind, that can find memory leaks and other kinds of memory errors, like Valgrind does?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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As pointed here, Valgrind is available for Yosemite, but only from trunk. Use

brew install valgrind --HEAD

to install.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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answered Apr 05 '15 at 20:17

Vadzim Tonka

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 10 '17 at 14:14

I've found that Valgrind is still a bit unstable on Mac in certain situations. If you're only looking for identifying (definite) memory leaks you could give Heapusage a try. Its output is similar to Valgrind, so it should be easy to use.

Full disclosure: I'm the author of Heapusage.

Is there an alternative to Valgrind on OS X Yosemite?

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