Memory-leak identification

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9104567-B2
Application number	US-201113338706-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 28, 2011
Priority date	Dec 28, 2011
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

A memory-leak source in a data structure can be identified by counting insertions into the data structure and deletions from the data structure for locations in the execution path of a computer program. These insertion and deletion values can be used to identify at least one location as a memory-leak source that corresponds to an imbalance between insertions and deletions during the execution of the computer program.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of identifying a memory leak in a data structure, the method comprising:
accessing a listing of a computer program, the computer program including program elements that create the data structure and operate on the data structure to include one or more objects as components of the data structure;
identifying at least one object-adding program element that adds at least one object to the data structure and at least one object-removing program elemen…

Assignees

• Moser Martin
• Sap Se

Inventors

• Moser Martin

Classifications

• G06F11/0751 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic