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Any tips or tricks to keep from acquiring memory leaks? I have recently been messing with the code to work on some perosnal plugins, however am starting to notice that I have memory leaks. If i process a cloud through my plugin, and then delete the cloud from the dbtree using the UI, I see residual memory being used in my task manager (That is more memory is being used than when cloudcompare was launched, however theres no clouds being stored - at least not to the users vision)

If you have any advice for tracing, tracking, and fixing memory leaks, it would be greatly appreciated.

It depends on what OS and IDE you are working with.

Personally I used Visual Studio and Visual Leak Detector (which can be 'enabled' in the CMake configuration of CC - you first have to install VLD of course).

Otherwise I know Valgrind on linux is very powerful.

I am working on windows in visual studio as well. I will see if I can find this enabling feature later this afternoon. Thanks!