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Detects buffer overruns and memory leaks.
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Starting heob disabled #20

Closed calvariomind closed 3 years ago

calvariomind commented 3 years ago

Hello, Thank you for this great tool. I have been using it for some time and it really helps me to catch those really annoying and hard to find memory bugs.

I would like to know if it is possible to start heob in some type of disabled state, without memory leaks checking, and activate it later during the target application usage. I am using heob from the command prompt and the target application is a c++ visual studio application.

Thanks in advance, José Calvário

ssbssa commented 3 years ago

Do you mean, like e.g., start with disabled memory leak check during GUI startup, and manually enable it just before pressing some button? That's possible with the option -k1, which gives you a very simple console interface (which can be controlled with the keys n/f/c/s).

If you mean something else, please elaborate.

calvariomind commented 3 years ago

Yes, that is exactly what I need. Thanks a lot!

ssbssa commented 3 years ago

Just for reference, you can additionally enable Global Hotkeys (sometimes useful if the heob console window is in the background) with -G1, see heob64 -HH for the exact keys.

Also, it's possible to do this inside the program, if you #include <heob.h> and use the heob_control() function.

calvariomind commented 3 years ago

Thanks again... that was very useful information.