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Memory Leak Detection

Memory Leak Detection is a methodological construct within embedded debugging and memory management that identifies the unintended retention of allocated memory resources by a program, thereby distinguishing it from other memory analysis techniques through its specific focus on diagnosing un-deallocated memory blocks that accumulate over time and impair system efficiency.

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2017–2026

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Low-overhead memory leak detection using adaptive statistical profiling

Matthias Hauswirth, Trishul Chilimbi · 2004 · 245 citations

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Static detection of dynamic memory errors

David Evans · 1996 · 238 citations · Full text

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SafeMem: Exploiting ECC-Memory for Detecting Memory Leaks and Memory Corruption During Production Runs

Feng Qin, Shan Lu, Yuanyuan Zhou · 2005 · 180 citations

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Practical memory leak detection using guarded value-flow analysis

Sigmund Cherem, Lonnie Princehouse, Radu Rugina · 2007 · 172 citations

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Static memory leak detection using full-sparse value-flow analysis

Yulei Sui, Ye Ding, Jingling Xue · 2012 · 151 citations

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Authors

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  1. GX
    Guoqing Xu

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    7 publications · 365 citations

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  2. AR
    Atanas Rountev

    The Ohio State University, United States

    6 publications · 336 citations

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  3. MD
    Michael D. Bond

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    5 publications · 289 citations

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  4. YS
    Yulei Sui

    University of Technology Sydney, Australia

    5 publications · 338 citations

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  5. AA
    Artur Andrzejak

    Heidelberg University, Germany

    5 publications · 101 citations

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  1. The Ohio State University

    Columbus, United States

    9 h-index

    24 publications

    1.1K citations

  2. Microsoft (United States)

    Redmond, United States

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    514 citations

  3. Heidelberg University

    Heidelberg, Germany

    6 h-index

    16 publications

    379 citations

  4. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    883 citations

  5. Google (United States)

    Mountain View, United States

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    429 citations

  6. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    767 citations

  7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    552 citations

  8. Institute of Software

    Beijing, China

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    140 citations

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  1. ACM SIGPLAN Notices

    7 publications · 416 citations

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  2. Software Practice and Experience

    3 publications · 42 citations

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  3. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review

    2 publications · 28 citations

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  4. Journal of Computer Science and Technology

    2 publications · 31 citations

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  5. Journal of Systems and Software

    JSS · 2 publications · 57 citations

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