From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
To: Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: guessing where address belongs to
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204835042.19253.688.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f36b08ee0803052138u6749eoba4d0186afb7ecbc@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 07:38 +0200, Yakov Lerner wrote:
> Ok, I will try to spec it. Regarding guessing of the
> "heap objects", I have this question:
>
> Gdb has no integration with malloc, correct ?
> Gdb has no way of enumerating all malloced
> pieces ("heap objects"), correct ?
>
> Or gdb does have a way of guessing which "heap
> object" some address X (that points inside the heap) belongs to ?
Nope -- the heap is just a big opaque blob.
GDB has no knowledge of what's inside it, and in fact
you're doing well if you can figure out where and how big
it is.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-06 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-04 9:21 Yakov Lerner
2008-03-04 8:16 ` Yakov Lerner
2008-03-04 9:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-05 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-05 19:56 ` Michael Snyder
[not found] ` <f36b08ee0803052138u6749eoba4d0186afb7ecbc@mail.gmail.com>
2008-03-06 6:54 ` Yakov Lerner
2008-03-06 10:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-06 13:13 ` Yakov Lerner
2008-03-06 20:37 ` Michael Snyder
2008-03-06 20:28 ` Michael Snyder
2008-03-06 20:27 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
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