FASTMM and how to use in a Delphi Project.
One of the most challenging parts of inheriting a legacy project is to fix the memory leaks that most often are hiding in the code. A while ago, while dealing with an application that managed to eat all the available memory within a few hours I found FastMM and it was sure a great find. What is FastMM? FastMM is a memory manager replacement designed to be used with Delphi. It is an Open Source project developed by Pierre Le Riche in South Africa. Starting with Delphi 2006 FastMM replaced the Borland memory manager. Unfortunately, Delphi only ships with a subset of FastMM. Most of the useful debugging reporting that can be done with FastMM has been stripped from the shipping version of Delphi, RAD Studio and BDS. But fear not! It is very simple to replace the stripped-down version of FastMM with the full version. All you have to do is follow the directions outlined below. I have also included a step to install the FastMM4 Options Interface program. That program is a very frie...