除了其他答案中提供的工具和方法之外，静态代码分析工具还可以用于检测内存泄漏(以及其他问题)。 Cppcheck是一个免费的健壮的工具。但是还有很多其他可用的工具。Wikipedia有一个静态代码分析工具列表。

Search your code for occurrences of new, and make sure that they all occur within a constructor with a matching delete in a destructor. Make sure that this is the only possibly throwing operation in that constructor. A simple way to do this is to wrap all pointers in std::auto_ptr, or boost::scoped_ptr (depending on whether or not you need move semantics). For all future code just ensure that every resource is owned by an object that cleans up the resource in its destructor. If you need move semantics then you can upgrade to a compiler that supports r-value references (VS2010 does I believe) and create move constructors. If you don't want to do that then you can use a variety of tricky techniques involving conscientious usage of swap, or try the Boost.Move library.

有一些著名的编程技术可以帮助您将内存泄漏的风险降至最低:

if you have to do your own dynamic memory allocation, write new and delete always pairwise, and make sure the allocation/deallocation code is called pairwise avoid dynamic memory allocation if you can. For example, use vector<T> t whereever possible instead of T* t = new T[size] use "smart pointers" like boost smart pointers (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_46_1/libs/smart_ptr/smart_ptr.htm) my personal favorite: make sure you have understood the concept of ownership of a pointer, and make sure that everywhere where you use pointers, you know which code entity is the owner learn which constructors / assignment operators are automatically created by the C++ compiler, and what that means if you have class that owns a pointer (or what that means if you have a class that contains a pointer to an object it does not own).

运行“Valgrind”可以:

1)帮助识别内存泄漏-显示您有多少内存泄漏，并指出代码中泄漏内存分配的行。

2)指出错误的释放内存的尝试(例如不正确的delete调用)

“Valgrind”使用说明

1)在这里获得valgrind。

2)使用-g标志编译代码

3)在shell中运行:

valgrind --leak-check=yes myprog arg1 arg2

其中"myprog"是你编译的程序，arg1, arg2是你程序的参数。

4)结果是一个调用malloc/new的列表，没有后续调用free delete。

例如:

==4230==    at 0x1B977DD0: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:136)

==4230==    by 0x804990F: main (example.c:6)

告诉您在哪一行(未释放的)调用了malloc。

正如其他人指出的那样，确保对于每个新的/malloc调用，都有一个后续的delete/free调用。

在应用程序代码中不应该使用“new”或“delete”。相反，应该创建一个使用管理器/工作人员习惯用法的新类型，其中管理器类分配和释放内存，并将所有其他操作转发给工作人员对象。

不幸的是，这比它应该做的要多，因为c++没有“operator .”的重载。如果存在多态，则工作量更大。

但是这样做是值得的，因为这样您就不必担心内存泄漏，这意味着您甚至不需要寻找它们。

Visual Leak Detector (VLD)是一个免费的、健壮的、开源的Visual c++内存泄漏检测系统。

当您在Visual Studio调试器下运行程序时，Visual Leak Detector将在调试会话结束时输出内存泄漏报告。泄漏报告包括完整的调用堆栈，显示泄漏的内存块是如何分配的。双击调用堆栈中的一行，以跳转到编辑器窗口中的该文件和该行。

如果你只有崩溃转储，你可以使用Windbg !heap -l命令，它将检测泄漏的堆块。最好打开gflags选项:“创建用户模式堆栈跟踪数据库”，然后您将看到内存分配调用堆栈。