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From: Michael Snyder <Michael.Snyder@palmsource.com>
To: Fabian Cenedese <Cenedese@indel.ch>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Memleaks?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1162240667.9408.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.1.20061030165930.01856ec0@NT_SERVER>

On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 17:01 +0100, Fabian Cenedese wrote:
> At 08:45 30.10.2006 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:40:56PM +0100, Fabian Cenedese wrote:
> >> I admit that I used not a state-of-the-art gdb, but I don't think that
> >> this was changed recently. I'd be pleased if you can correct me.
> >> 
> >> GNU gdb 6.2.50_2004-10-14-cvs
> >
> >This is two years old; I can't really speculate on what has changed
> >since then.  It may be simple memory leaks, or it may be something more
> >complex.
> 
> Actually 6.5 behaves the same as 6.2.5. The difference was not the
> version but the calling. When started with "gdb --readnow" every file
> read will leave some memory behind and use more and more. So it
> seems that the full symbols are not cleaned up as well as the partial
> symbols.

It's not at all surprising that that would make a difference.
With --readnow, you're going to do an enormous amount of mallocing.



  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-30 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-30 11:41 Memleaks? Fabian Cenedese
2006-10-30 13:45 ` Memleaks? Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-30 15:06   ` Memleaks? Fabian Cenedese
2006-10-30 15:08     ` Memleaks? Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-30 16:02   ` Memleaks? Fabian Cenedese
2006-10-30 20:37     ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2006-10-31  7:27       ` Memleaks? Fabian Cenedese
2006-10-31 12:16   ` Memleaks? Christopher Faylor
2006-11-02  7:31     ` *SPAM*Re: Memleaks? Fabian Cenedese

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