mpatrol

mpatrol
Foreword
1 Overview
2 Features
3 Installation
4 Integration
- 4.1 Adding mpatrol
- 4.2 Removing mpatrol
5 Memory allocations
- 5.1 Static memory allocations
- 5.2 Stack memory allocations
- 5.3 Dynamic memory allocations
6 Operating system support
- 6.1 Virtual memory
- 6.2 Call stacks and symbol tables
- 6.3 Threads
7 Using mpatrol
- 7.1 Library behaviour
- 7.2 Logging and tracing
- 7.3 General errors
- 7.4 Overwrites and underwrites
- 7.5 Using with a debugger
- 7.6 Testing
- 7.7 Library functions
- 7.8 Leak table
8 Tools
- 8.1 Dbmalloc-compatible functions
- 8.2 Dmalloc-compatible functions
- 8.3 Determining heap differences
- 8.4 Memory allocation gauge
- 8.5 Memory allocation tracing
9 Utilities
- 9.1 The mpatrol command
- 9.2 The mleak command
- 9.3 The mpsym command
- 9.4 The mpedit command
- 9.5 The hexwords command
10 Profiling
11 Tracing
12 Heap corruption
13 Memory leaks
14 Improving performance
15 How it works
16 Examples
- 16.1 Getting started
- 16.2 Detecting incorrect reuse of freed memory
- 16.3 Detecting use of free memory
- 16.4 Using overflow buffers
- 16.5 Checking memory accesses
- 16.6 Bad memory operations
- 16.7 Incompatible function calls
- 16.8 The alloca() functions
- 16.9 The MP_MALLOC() functions
- 16.10 Additional useful information
17 Tutorial
Appendix A Functions
- A.1 C dynamic memory allocation functions
- A.2 C dynamic memory extension functions
- A.3 C dynamic memory alternative functions
- A.4 C++ dynamic memory allocation functions
- A.5 C memory operation functions
- A.6 mpatrol library functions
Appendix B Environment
Appendix C Options
Appendix D Diagnostic messages
Appendix E Library performance
Appendix F File formats
- F.1 Profiling file format
- F.2 Tracing file format
Appendix G Supported systems
Appendix H Porting
Appendix I Notes
- I.1 Notes for all platforms
- I.2 Notes for UNIX platforms
- I.3 Notes for Amiga platforms
- I.4 Notes for Windows platforms
- I.5 Notes for Netware platforms
Appendix J Frequently asked questions
- J.1 Documentation
- J.2 Building
- J.3 Linking
- J.4 Running
- J.5 Files
Appendix K Related software
Appendix L References
Appendix M About the author
Appendix N Copying
Function index
Main index

mpatrol

This document describes mpatrol, a library for controlling and tracing dynamic memory allocations.

This is edition 2.16 of the mpatrol manual for version 1.5.1, 17th December, 2008.

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