The ccmalloc tool is a memory profiler with a simple usage model that supports dynamically linked libraries but not dlopen. It detects memory leaks, multiple de-allocation of the same data, ...

With automatic memory management and memory-safe pointers, the open source compiler TrapC is designed to make code written in C and C++ safer.

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This post originally appeared in WIRED. As Moore’s Law has packed more and more transistors onto a single memory chip, scientists have fretted for years that electric charges that “leak” out ...