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
next prev parent 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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