Method and system for tracking memory usage

A method for tracking memory allocation and release activities by a memory tracker to detect memory leak, buffer overflow, and release type mismatch errors in a computing system, comprising:

• generating a first data structure, Allocated Memory Block (AMB), for each of a plurality of respective user pointers, wherein each AMB includes its respective user pointer, a user memory size, an allocation type, and a node data which supports adding the AMB into an indexed data structure;
• generating a second data structure, the indexed data structure, configured to track each allocated memory blocks (AMB), wherein each allocated memory block is locatable by a memory pointer returned to a caller program;
• generating a third data structure, a User Memory Block (UMB) for each AMB, wherein the UMB includes the user memory and a tail byte array of tail bytes, and wherein the tail byte array is configured to provide integrity checking and detecting a buffer overflow;
• providing a plurality of memory allocate and release functions and operators that include:
• malloc, realloc, calloc, free, new, delete, new[ ], and delete[ ] to capture a memory allocation and release request;
• allocating and releasing blocks of memory based on the plurality of memory allocate and release functions.