Re: Something is broken in repack

From: Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: Dec 14, 2007, 16:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20071214161858.3506.qmail@md.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>
In-Reply-To: <85d4tc8hi8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

Hi,

> Maybe an malloc/free/mmap wrapper that records the requested sizes and
> alloc/free order and dumps them to file so that one can make a compact
> git-free standalone test case for the glibc maintainers might be a good
> thing.

I already have such a wrapper:

http://malloc.de/malloc/mtrace-20060529.tar.gz

But note that it does interfere with the thread scheduling, so it can't record the exact same allocation pattern as when not using the wrapper.

Regards, Wolfram.