Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 11:47:42 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk, joelh@gnu.org, kline@thought.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory leak location tool? Message-ID: <199811011947.LAA00579@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.981101113129.5087F-100000@current1.whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Nov 1, 98 11:31:46 am"
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According to Julian Elischer: > don't forget 'mprof' > very good for this. > Right. So far I've used memleak and mprof. The outputs of both are a bit obscure, but I've fixed two programs. They had almost insignificant leaks, and now none. Can anyone send me a brief test file and Makefile that works (demonstrates something) for gc? thanks, gary > > On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Robert Swindells wrote: > > > > > >> Are there any free tools to detect likely memory leaks? Tools > > >> like Purify aren't quite what I'm looking for. > > >> Anybody? > > > > >"more `grep -l malloc /usr/ports/devel/*/pkg/DESCR`" will turn up the > > >following: > > > > > >* The Boehm-Weiser garbage collecting malloc (boehm-gc) includes a leak > > > detector. > > > > > >* Doug Lea's malloc (libdlmalloc) and libmalloc include hooks to add > > > leak detection. > > > > > >* S-Lang (libslang) says that it includes "a malloc debugging > > > package". I'm not sure whether they mean something to help debug > > > malloc, or a malloc that helps you debug your code. > > > > There is also a simple one as part of X11R6.3. > > > > It is in xc/utils/memleak. > > > > I can't tell if the 386 support came as standard, or with the XFree86 > > patches. > > > > Robert Swindells > > ------------------------------------- > > Robert Swindells - GenRad Ltd > > rjs@genrad.co.uk - Work > > rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk - Home > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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