Re: Memleaks?

Michael Snyder
2006-10-30T20:37:59Z

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.