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		sjburt on Dec 3, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'I'm running a Mud so I can learn C programming ' ... Really curious about this: > If you have access to a program named 'Purify' ... learn how to use it. Anyone know what this was or use it?

kstrauser on Dec 3, 2024 | [–]

It's a memory debugger, in the same class of things as Valgrind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PurifyPlus

Fun fact: it was written by the cofounder and chairman of Netflix.

mathgeek on Dec 3, 2024 | | [–]

Quick google suggests it was https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~hasti/cs368/CppTutorial/NOTES/PUR...

filchermcurr on Dec 3, 2024 | [–]

It's kind of like Valgrind and was (is? I'm not sure.) used for finding memory leaks.

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