Write a function to check memory leak in a program using c ?

Question

Write a C program to check if the given string is repeated substring or not.
ex
1: abcabcabc - yes (as abc is repeated.)
2: abcdabababababab - no

Answer 1

To check the memory leak we can use Valgrind tool

For linux users

go to root and
apt-get install valgrind
and check memory leak using command
**valgrind --leak-check='yes' "./executable file name" **

For example

#include <stdlib.h>
int main()
{
    char *x = malloc(100); /* or, in C++, "char *x = new char[100] */
    return 0;
}

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EXECUTE:

% valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=yes example1

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This will result in some information about the program showing up, culminating in a list of calls to malloc that did not have subsequent calls to free:

==2116== 100 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 1 of 1
==2116== at 0x1B900DD0: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:131)
==2116== by 0x804840F: main (in /home/cprogram/example1)