From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@gmail.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: guessing where address belongs to
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204835212.19253.689.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <je1w6oqiaz.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 11:05 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> "Yakov Lerner" <iler.ml@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 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 ?
>
> The details are highly dependent on the malloc implementation. There is
> no way to find that out without intimate knowledge of the
> implementation.
Yep, and there's no marriage between any given platform
and any given malloc implementation. Replacing the malloc
from glibc is a fairly common thing to do, for instance.
So gdb really has no idea what's in there...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-06 20:27 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 [this message]
2008-03-06 20:27 ` Michael Snyder
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