[Boost-users] Boost's pool implementation

From: Thomas Harning (metx84_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-11 16:54:52

First off, I think the Boost pool is a great tool and for me has been one 
of the most useful of Boost's libraries.

I have run into a problem however, due to the pool's usage of "malloc" and 
"free" as the names of functions.
The problem is that I want to debug memory usage in my program and catch 
memory leaks, but using the leak detection in Visual Studio 7.1 for the CRT 
creates a macro for malloc and free, which conflicts with the pool's malloc 
and free and makes a general mess.

Is there any better memory debug library/tools out there that are free and 
can get the line/file that the memory allocation occurred and the size 
perhaps and possibly a  portion of the contained data as a character string?

Perhaps I could write up a patch to rename the malloc and free from the 
boost pool [though I see that would be quite a pain to the existing users 
of boost's pool since code would have to be rewritten with whatever 
function is added].
Thanks.

Thomas Harning Jr.