From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Chris Markle <cmarkle@sendmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: calling glibc mallinfo() from GDB after attaching to a process?
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 03:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01c48f0e$Blat.v2.2.2$c9e5a100@zahav.net.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4133DDC2.3040403@sendmail.com> (message from Chris Markle on Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:09:06 -0700)
> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:09:06 -0700
> From: Chris Markle <cmarkle@sendmail.com>
>
> I would like to attach to a running program, issue a call to the glibc
> mallinfo() function, display the returned mallinfo structure, and the
> continue execution of the program. The idea here is to grab some malloc
> statistics from a running program... Is this kind of thing possible?
Yes.
> If so, can someone offer up some clues as to the GDB commands to
> issue to do this?
After attaching to the program, use the command
call mallinfo
to call the function. This will work if mallinfo is linked into the
program.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-31 3:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-31 2:09 Chris Markle
2004-08-31 3:58 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-08-31 5:25 ` Chris Markle
2004-08-31 15:20 ` Michael Chastain
2004-08-31 16:07 ` Chris Markle
2004-08-31 17:14 ` Michael Chastain
2004-08-31 9:26 ` Andreas Schwab
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