Aard is basically a programming tool. It checks memory use for C++ programs. It is written by Steve Reiss, who names his programs after living systems. It is used to track the state of each byte of memory in the heap and the stack. This is usually used when one study the course of Data Structures. This tool can detect invalid transitions (i.e. attempting to set or use undefined or free storage or attempting to access un-initialized storage) etc.

In addition, the program keeps track of heap use through malloc and free and at the end of the run reports memory blocks that were not freed and that are not accessible (i.e. memory leaks). The tool works using a spliced-in shared library on SPARCs running C++ 3.0.1 under SunOS 4.X.

This is a simple tool that a beginner as well as an expert can use. It is basically not a programming language, rather it is an application. It is written by Steve Reiss. This program is very helpful in the purpose of learning data structures. It is freeware software, mostly use in educational institutes to make the students learn the data types and data entering and its storage compatibility with the computer.

Although this software is not that much common but it is very helpful. In Matlab you can easily get the memory allocation size of the variables used. But in C++, Aard makes it easy for the programmer. Its advantages are that through this program you know how much ram will be used and what will the processor do while running the program in C++. As in C++ there is no automatic vision of the variables you define.

 Aard helps you there. It can be easily found on the internet but the tutorial is not available on the internet. Therefore one has to be self efficient to got though the program and see how the program works. It is not that hard to understand the working of this tool. Even a beginner can use this tool after running it. Once they get to know how this works they have the complete hold on different data types. These are the advantages of this software for a programmer in C++.