Re: Producing memory traces of C storage allocation?

ratatat@army.net (Corndog) writes:


> Hmm..this is quite the question Im sure, but does anyone know of a C
> compiler or is anyone able to tell me how to create one (roars of
> laughter) that is able to force the program being generated to log all
> calls to memory allocation routines like malloc and free in order for
> me to be able to determine the size of the heap at any point during
> the program execution?




There are a bunch of libraries available which were designed for that
especially. I suggest you use your trusted search engine and check out
the different options.




> I figure the only way I can get the actual
> size of the heap at any given point in time is to have the compiler
> intercept the memory allocation routines and do the work of wrappers
> for me. Please help..puhlease!


Why do you need to know that BTW?


Regards
Friedrich

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