[petsc-dev] writing PETSc code with no memory leaks

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 10 May 2011, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:

> On 10 May 2011 05:27, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> >   I find it very useful when writing PETSc code to keep the environmental variable
> >
> > export PETSC_OPTIONS="-malloc -malloc_debug -malloc_dump"
> >
> > where I run my test programs. This helps me see memory leaks immediately (where I forgot to destroy some objects or free some memory) rather than tracking down a ton of memory leaks months later. Suggest others do the same.
> >
> 
> Is this used when you "make testexamples" ?

I try to have these options in ~/.petscrc for most of the testmachines.

Satish