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From: "Yakov Lerner" <iler.ml@gmail.com>
To: "Andreas Schwab" <schwab@suse.de>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: guessing where address belongs to
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f36b08ee0803060245k1f52397hc2a8b3639b61294b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <je1w6oqiaz.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> 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.

You don't need details of malloc guts for that.

It's enough to hook to the entry and return  from malloc,free,realloc.

Yakov


  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-06 10:46 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 [this message]
2008-03-06 20:37             ` Michael Snyder
2008-03-06 20:28           ` Michael Snyder
2008-03-06 20:27       ` Michael Snyder

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