ld-auto-import memory bug fixing

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Fri Sep 7 14:51:00 GMT 2001


On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:14:04PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>Hi,
>
>is there any way to get the size of by malloc allocated byte of an application ?
>If have tried malloc_stats() and mallinfo(), which is described in
>/usr/include/malloc.h
>and implemented in dlmalloc.cc of the cygwin source, but they seems to be not
>defined
>in the cygwin1.dll import library.

dlmalloc is the debugging malloc library that cygwin uses when compiled
with malloc debugging (configure --enable-malloc-debugging).

The normal malloc comes from newlib.

>Another library mmalloc contains mmstats() and mmtrace() which looks equal
>malloc_stats() but using
>this prints nothing. :-(

I don't think that anything in binutils uses mmalloc.

cgf



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