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++)。

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).

在visual studio中，有一个内置的内存泄漏检测器，称为C运行时库。当主函数返回后程序退出时，CRT将检查应用程序的调试堆。如果在调试堆上仍然分配了任何块，那么就存在内存泄漏。 本论坛讨论了在C/ c++中避免内存泄漏的一些方法。

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.

确保成功释放了所有堆内存。如果您从未在堆上分配内存，则不需要这样做。如果你这样做，计算你malloc内存的次数，并计算你释放内存的次数。

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。