RefTrack

reftrack.h is a utility for listing, finding, and reading global atomic counters. By convention used to expose object instance counters as a way of detecting (slow) reference/resource leaks before they cause problems.

cf. the IOC shell commands "refshow", "refsave", and "refdiff".

Example usage:

// my header.h
struct MyClass {
   MyClass();
   ~MyClass();
   static size_t num_instances;
   ...
};
...
// my src.cpp
size_t MyClass::num_instances;
MyClass::MyClass() {
   REFTRACE_INCREMENT(num_instances);
}
MyClass::~MyClass() {
   REFTRACE_DECREMENT(num_instances);
}
// in some IOC registrar or global ctor
registerRefCounter("MyClass", &MyClass::num_instances);