Finding Memory Leaks

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BLaBZ (Posted 2013) [#1]

Is there a technique or way to find memory leaks in blitzmax? I have 30k+ lines of code and i feel like I've been trying to find a needle in a hay stack. Thanks!

GfK (Posted 2013) [#2]

Ever-expanding lists of objects are always a good place to start. So stick a DebugLog myList.Count() anytime you add something to a TList. If a TList is becoming exponentially huge, there's your problem.

Cruis.In (Posted 2013) [#3]

or look for unintentional instancing of objects.

JoshK (Posted 2013) [#4]

Run a loop that reproduces the leak with as small of code as possible. It's difficult find memory leaks in BMX because the garbage collection makes it less predictable.