[Boost-users] Memory Leak Detection output format

From: Jamie Cook (jimi.cook_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-15 18:06:54

Hi all,

I'm using the boost.test unit tests with memory leak detection turned on and
I'm slightly puzzled about the format of the output. I've been working on
getting boost to play nicely with STLport and one of the 'problems' I'm
having is with memory leaks being reported by boost.test which are actually
coming from stlport (there is a discussion on their FAQ about how these
aren't really memory leaks at all but that is beside the point). I've
managed to get rid of most of these leaks but I've still got one hanging
around and I don't know where it comes from. My output from my testing looks
like this

Embedding manifest...
Performing Post-Build Event...
*** No errors detected
Running 1 test case...
Detected memory leaks!
Dumping objects ->
{171} normal block at 0x00378B88, 1280 bytes long.
 Data: <  7 lationStatis> A8 8D 37 00 6C 61 74 69 6F 6E 53 74 61 74 69 73
Object dump complete.

My question is this... how can I enable more informative memory leak output?
In this article () it says that by #define _CRTDBG_MAP_ALLOC, the filename
and line number will also be displayed. I'm looking into
execution_monitor.ipp and I can see where <crtdbg.h> is included but even if
I put the #define directly before this include the output comes out exactly
the same as above. (and yes I recompiled the library)

I'm using MSVC8.0, boost 1.34.1 and stlport 5.1.4 and the test library is
compiled as
C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_34_1\libs\test\build>bjam --toolset=msvc
link=static stdlib=stlport threading=multi

I would really appreciate if anyone could give me some insight on why this
is being reported in such a way that I can't actually use it.

Cheers,
-- 
Jamie Cook
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