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).

如果使用gcc，则有gprof可用。

我想知道程序员如何发现内存泄漏

有些人使用工具，有些人做你做的事情，也可以通过同行代码审查

是否应该遵循某种标准或过程来确保程序中没有内存泄漏

对我来说:每当我创建动态分配对象时，我总是把释放代码放在后面，然后在中间填充代码。如果您确定之间的代码中不会出现异常，那么这样做是可以的。否则，我会使用try-finally(我不经常使用c++)。

Download Debugging Tools for Windows. Use the gflags utility to turn on user-mode stack traces. Use UMDH to take multiple snapshots of your program's memory. Take a snapshot before memory gets allocated, and take a second snapshot after a point at which you believe that your program has leaked memory. You might want to add pauses or prompts in your program to give you a chance to run UMDH and take the snapshots. Run UMDH again, this time in its mode that does a diff between the two snapshots. It will then generate a report containing the call stacks of suspected memory leaks. Restore your previous gflags settings when you're done.

UMDH会给你比CRT调试堆更多的信息，因为它会监视整个进程的内存分配;它甚至可以告诉您第三方组件是否泄漏。

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。

AddressSanitizer (ASan)是一种快速的内存错误检测器。 它可以发现C/ c++程序中的use-after-free和{heap,stack,global}-buffer溢出错误。它发现:

在free之后使用(悬空指针解引用) 堆缓冲区溢出 堆栈缓冲区溢出 全局缓冲区溢出 退货后使用 初始化顺序错误

这个工具很快。仪器程序的平均速度为~2倍。

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。