Not quite valgrind for OS X
I do most of my development on OS X, but I do have parallels instances for both Ubuntu and Windows. One thing I really miss on OS X and Windows is valgrind. It is the savior of dumb C/C++ programmers like myself everywhere. Apple ships a couple of tools that are close to approaching the utility of valgrind.
- Chris Hanson’s nice description of how to use the leaks command on OS X.
- ‘man malloc’ on OS X describes a number of environment variables you can use for malloc tracing on OS X.
Still not as good as valgrind, but close enough for a lot of cases…