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Valgrind / Address Sanitizer equivalent for Visual Studio

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Hello everyone,

Just recently I ran into one of those nasty memory bugs that needs digging for days. After wrestling with Visual Studio and Windows for days I finally gave in and switched to Linux for Valgrind. I've been using it to trace use-after-free errors for years. The equivalent on macOS is clang's Address Sanitizer which is present in XCode.

Is there such a thing for Visual Studio? I've tried the Memory Error tool from Intel Inspector but it lacks the tracing that Valgrind and ASAN provide: pinpointing the exact place a pointer was set free , not …


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