mtrace and mcheck.h in Cygwin

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Wed Nov 29 03:02:00 GMT 2006


On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 12:01:46AM +0000, John LaRusic wrote:
>I'm building a program in C using GCC under Cygwin.  I appear to have a
>memory leak somewhere in my program, so I want to use the memory
>allocation debugging that's part of the GNU C library.
>
>This involves including the mcheck.h header file in the source, and
>using the mtrace command.  It is better explained in the GNU C Library
>documentation here (sorry for the URL being broken into two lines):
>http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual//html_node
>/Allocation-Debugging.html#Allocation-Debugging

Sorry, but cygwin != glibc.  This function isn't available in the cygwin
DLL.

cgf

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