Is there any mechanism in GDB to print memory allocation pattern in a core dump file

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Fri May 25 14:27:00 GMT 2012


>>>>> "Santosh" == santoshp  <santosh.pradhan@gmail.com> writes:

Santosh> The application is a C++ application running on Linux (RHEL 5.7
Santosh> x86_64). It uses a private memory allocator (variation of
Santosh> ptmalloc). The gdb-heap link says it works for python objects
Santosh> and work for c++ is under process. Can I use the gdb-heap ?

Probably not as-is.  gdb-heap relies on glibc.

You could probably port it to your allocator, though.

Tom



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