Tag: AddressSanitizer

3 posts

Sep 17, 2026 32 min read Intermediate

C++ Memory Leaks: Causes, Detection, and Prevention

Understand heap leaks: lost pointers, exception paths, shared_ptr cycles. Valgrind, ASan/LSan, heap profilers, Visual Studio, RAII, suppression files, and CI.
Jun 16, 2026 18 min read Intermediate

C++ Runtime Checking: AddressSanitizer and ThreadSanitizer

Catch use-after-free, overflows, leaks and data races with ASan and TSan: compiler flags, reading reports, CMake presets, GitHub Actions and suppressions.
Jun 2, 2026 17 min read Intermediate

Finding C++ Memory Leaks: Valgrind and AddressSanitizer

Find C++ heap leaks with Valgrind, ASan/LeakSanitizer and the Visual Studio CRT debug heap, then fix early returns, exception paths and shared_ptr cycles.