MTuner is a C/C++ memory profiler and memory leak finder (opens in new tab)

Doesn't valgrind do this?

Very good. I wish you all the success.

But I have a (side) question. You are using Makefile while targeting non-nix platforms. Why? It seems to me it is the strangest combination ever.

Doesn't work on a Mac.

How different is this from Intel's vtune amplifier? I used vtune amplifier to get the memory profiles for some c++ code I had written before.

In case someone is looking for the equivalent on Linux and Mac, there is HeapTrack

https://github.com/KDE/heaptrack

edit: typo

Is there a binary version of this tool that can be downloaded somewhere? Seems a bit of a pain to install.

I never used other memory profilers than MTuner mainly because not needing it, but also because MTuner works so well (for what I used it) I saw no reason to look for anything else: the combination of the different ways to view allocations/deallocations make for a very detailed yet uncomplicated view of your application's memory managment. E.g. first thing I noticed once was a constructor allocating 20 blocks of 8K and freeing them again just to initialize a vector, so that immediately tells you there's room for improvement there. Possibly other tools work just as well, but I can't compare.

It's also interesting just to look at all the data to figure out how exepensive some things are memory-wise. These days with the more modern C++ it's easy to forget what goes on under the hood. Nothing wrong with that per-se: C++ is usually performant enough that you just don't have to care about it at all. But if you have this typcial engineering mindset and like to know how stuff works just for the sake of it, and 'stuff' in this case is 'memory usage', then this is your tool.

Did anyone try it with https://developer.arm.com/open-source/gnu-toolchain/gnu-rm?

How does that compare with the sanitizers in Clang (Memory, Address .. ) ?

Impressive work, Mr Tošić! :)

2 Clause BSD! Woop woop!

Seriously this is another good app in the arsenal.