Are there any alternatives to valgrind on Mac OS X Mountain Lion and Mavericks to detect memory leaks for C/C++ applications?

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On 2013-11-01, the valgrind team announced Valgrind 3.9.0:

We are pleased to announce a new release of Valgrind, version 3.9.0, available from http://www.valgrind.org.

3.9.0 is a feature release with many improvements and the usual collection of bug fixes. This release adds support for MIPS64/Linux, Intel AVX2 instructions and POWER8 instructions. DFP support has been added for S390. Initial support for hardware transactional memory has been added for Intel and POWER platforms. Support for Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) has been improved. Accuracy of Memcheck on vectorized code has been improved.

It remains to be seen whether the improved Mountain Lion support means it works OK for Mavericks. It does mention that the support is only for 64-bit code.

[...time passeth...downloads happen...hopes are raised...configuration is attempted...hopes are dashed...]

Urgh!

...
checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0
checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0
checking for a supported CPU... ok (x86_64)
checking for a 64-bit only build... no
checking for a 32-bit only build... no
checking for a supported OS... ok (darwin13.0.0)
checking for the kernel version... unsupported (13.0.0)
configure: error: Valgrind works on Darwin 10.x and 11.x (Mac OS X 10.6/7)

Mountain Lion is based on Darwin 12.x; Mavericks is based on Darwin 13.x. I'm not sure about the messaging in the error messages, but out of the box, Valgrind 3.9.0 does not compile on OS X Mavericks.