Memory Leak using GCC

Detecting Memory Leak using GCC

( without Valgrind)

#include

int main()

{

  int *prt =(int*) malloc(sizeof(int));;

  return 0;

}

08:46:32alok@~$ gcc memory_leak.c 

08:46:51alok@~$ ./a.out 

08:46:52alok@~$ gcc -fsanitize=address -g memory_leak.c 

08:46:59alok@~$ ./a.out 

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==4221==ERROR: LeakSanitizer: detected memory leaks

Direct leak of 4 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:

    #0 0x7fe31f218acb in __interceptor_malloc (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblsan.so.0+0xeacb)

    #1 0x558bd3ad271b in main /home/alok/memory_leak.c:4

    #2 0x7fe31ee3ab96 in __libc_start_main (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x21b96)

SUMMARY: LeakSanitizer: 4 byte(s) leaked in 1 allocation(s).