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Memory leaks from the programmer's point of view:

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A major web portal concerning tools for detecting memory leaks and their debugging:

Zorn, B., "Debugging Tools for Dynamic Storage Allocation and Memory Management", http://www.cs. colorado .edu/ homes /zorn/public_html/MallocDebug.html .

All sorts of postings on detecting and debugging memory leaks:

http://search.microsoft.com/ .

Some related web-based material:

"C++ Tips: Exceptions", http://cpptips.hyperformix.com/Exceptions.html .

Jelovic, D., "C++ without Memory Errors", http://www.jelovic.com/articles/cpp_without_memory_errors_slides.htm .

Mazi res, D., "My Rant on C++'s Operator new", http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/~dm/c++-new.html .

Sharon, Y., "Smart Pointers - What, Why, Which?", http://ootips.org/yonat/4dev/smart-pointers.html .

"Writing Exception Safe Classes", http://www.infrasoft.co.at/hn/exceptions.txt .