Rational Purify for Windows

Feature	Description	Benefit
Memory corruption detection	Automatically pinpoints hard-to-find bugs	Significantly decreases debugging time. Improves execution reliability
Memory leak detection	Identifies memory blocks that can’t be referenced along with memory blocks that are never freed.	Improves memory utilization.
Binary instrumentation technology	Instruments code at the byte or object level	No recompilation or re-linking is needed to analyze code. Analyzes third-party libraries
IDE Integration	Integrated with Microsoft® Visual Studio®	No need to switch back and forth between different tools with different user interfaces. Provides for a more cohesive, productive development experience. Helps test and analyze code as it is being created.
Comprehensive programming language support	Supports Microsoft .NET™ languages as well as Visual C++® and Visual Basic®	Provides memory debugging and leak detection for all aspects of Windows application development.
Selective instrumentation	Allows a user to limit analysis to a subset of the modules comprising an application	Reduces instrumentation and runtime overhead. Limits reporting to modules of interest or responsibility.
Command line interface	Allows a user to run Purify from the command line	Supports automated testing frameworks.

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