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Re: guessing where address belongs to
"Yakov Lerner" <iler.ml@gmail.com> writes:
> Gdb has no integration with malloc, correct ?
> Gdb has no way of enumerating all malloced
> pieces ("heap objects"), correct ?
>
> Or gdb does have a way of guessing which "heap
> object" some address X (that points inside the heap) belongs to ?
The details are highly dependent on the malloc implementation. There is
no way to find that out without intimate knowledge of the
implementation.
Andreas.
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