programming, tool (Dutch for "earth") A tool to check memory
use for
C++ programs, written by Steve Reiss
systems).
Aard tracks the state of each byte of memory in the
heap and
the
stack. The state can be one of Undefined,
Uninitialised, Free or Set. The program can detect invalid
transitions (i.e. attempting to set or use undefined or free
storage or attempting to access uninitialised storage).
In addition, the program keeps track of heap use through
malloc and
free and at the end of the run reports memory
blocks that were not freed and that are not accessible
(1998-03-03)