RFC: api to walk memory allocations

[David Malcolm]

On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 09:12 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Siddhesh" == Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >> It's already been done in gdb:
> >> https://fedorahosted.org/gdb-heap/
> 
> Siddhesh> David Malcolm and I had discussed the idea of having gdb python
> Siddhesh> scripts for various modules in glibc at the Cauldron this year.  Since
> Siddhesh> gdb-heap is also essentially just that, we could have it integrated it
> Siddhesh> into glibc.
> 
> Yeah, this would solve at least one problem on the packaging end.

Note that I still regard gdb-heap as an experimental prototype, and I
haven't touched it in a couple of years; there are a fair number of
rough edges in that code still.