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by wallstprog 1287 days ago
It's been a while, but IIRC ASAN catches most/all of the memory-related errors that Purify did.

Purify did have a debugger-like GUI that would break on errors, which could be handy.

valgrind can also do most of the same checks, but is much slower.

On my team we use both