Looking for Multi-Platform Memory Leak detection programs.

Question

Ok I have a school assignment to basically pick 3 memory leak detecting programs and run them on a bunch of c++ programs that the teacher supplies us and see how they compare to each other. These 3 programs have to be multi-platform and this is where I'm stuck. I have only been able to find one called valgrind which works on both MAC OSX and Linux. Does anybody know of a few others? Almost everything I find seems to be for only one OS or I have to pay for it. I don't have to actually run them on each OS they just have to have a version that will run on another OS. Any help would be appreciated.

EDIT: Turns out I completely misunderstood my assignment and that I just have to have like say 1 for linux and 2 for windows. Basically I can't have all 3 for one OS. This makes things a heck of a lot easier.

Answer 1

Since leak detection programs uses OS specific instrumentation code which injected to your code, there aren't many multi platform solutions, as each OS has it's own memory management features.

I used to work with bounds-checker, AQTime (more modern) but they both run on windows based software. if your code is pure C++ than you can just port it to MS environment - and check it there.

Answer 2

IBM's purify has Linux, Windows and various Unix versions (not sure about OSX). It is paid software, but you may be able to get away with using the trial version.

Answer 3

You might try Electric Fence (efence)