Each memory leak listing in the
Memory Problems view includes but isn't limited to these details:
- Severity: LEAK
- Description: memory leak of size nbytes
- Pointer: address of the lost pointer
- Trap Function: always malloc
- Alloc Kind: how memory was allocated for this block (malloc, calloc,
or realloc)
- Location: source file and line of code where the block was allocated (e.g., main.c:59)
- Count: number of blocks leaked
For information on common symptoms of memory leaks and a brief example, see the section on
interpreting memory leaks in the analysis results.