Can Instruments be used as a replacement for
valgrind
If one wants to check for memory leaks using instruments can it be used from the terminal?
Instruments used to have a command line interface:
$ instruments -h
Example usage:
$ instruments -t mytemplate -a myapp.app
For leaks, try the Leaks.tracetemplate
. To see all available templates, use -s
.
There is another executable, just called leaks
. You can inspect any running application by giving leaks
its PID:
$ echo $$
620
$ leaks 620
leaks Report Version: 2.0
Process: bash [620]
Path: /bin/bash
Load Address: 0x100000000
...
Process 620: 37983 nodes malloced for 1123 KB
Process 620: 0 leaks for 0 total leaked bytes.
Read more about leaks in the Apple developer reference library.