malloc+utrace, tracking memory leaks in a running program.
Alfred Perlstein
bright at mu.org
Sat Dec 22 18:08:05 UTC 2012
On 12/22/12 8:56 AM, Ed Maste wrote:
> On 21 December 2012 22:37, Alfred Perlstein <bright at mu.org> wrote:
>
>> Is it time to start installing with some form of debug symbols? This would
>> help us also with dtrace.
> I just posted a patch to add a knob to build and install standalone
> debug files. My intent is that we will build releases with this
> enabled, and add a base-dbg.txz distribution that contains the debug
> data for the base system, so that one can install it along with
> everything else, or add it later on when needed.
>
> We could perhaps teach dtrace to read its data from standalone .ctf
> files, or have it read DWARF directly and use the same debug files.
>
Thank you.
Added CC'd Rui Paulo. Rui, do you think it's easy to get dtrace to
honor these conventions?
-Alfred
More information about the freebsd-hackers
mailing list