D.gnu - Debugging D with valgrind
- wscott wscott1.homeip.net (Wayne Scott) (39/39) Jul 17 2004 I just started using D and gdc this week, but I noticed something that
- Sha Chancellor (3/54) Jul 26 2004 Sweet. :) I hope it works well
I just started using D and gdc this week, but I noticed something that
I haven't seen mentioned before.
valgrind works on simple D programs.
Consider this trivial example:
$ cat err.d
void
main()
{
int *j;
*j = 4;
}
$ valgrind --tool=memcheck ./a.out
==27778== Memcheck, a memory error detector for x86-linux.
==27778== Copyright (C) 2002-2004, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward.
==27778== Using valgrind-2.1.1, a program supervision framework for x86-linux.
==27778== Copyright (C) 2000-2004, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward.
==27778== For more details, rerun with: -v
==27778==
==27778== Invalid write of size 4
==27778== at 0x8049294: _Dmain (err.d:7)
==27778== by 0x80492BA: main (dmain2.d:43)
==27778== Address 0x0 is not stack'd, malloc'd or free'd
==27778==
==27778== Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV):
dumping core
==27778== Access not within mapped region at address 0x0
==27778== at 0x8049294: _Dmain (in /home/wscott/Dlang/a.out)
==27778== by 0x80492BA: main (dmain2.d:43)
==27778==
==27778== ERROR SUMMARY: 2 errors from 2 contexts
==27778== malloc/free: in use at exit: 33440 bytes in 13 blocks.
==27778== malloc/free: 13 allocs, 0 frees, 33440 bytes allocated.
==27778== For a detailed leak analysis, rerun with: --leak-check=yes
==27778== For counts of detected errors, rerun with: -v
The checks work fine and the debug information works.
I haven't had a lot of luck with gdb, so this is handle.
Now we just need to teach valgrind about D's name mangling.
I will try some more complicated ones that invoke the GC and see if
it still works.
-Wayne
Jul 17 2004
In article <cdb0cq$184r$1 digitaldaemon.com>,
wscott wscott1.homeip.net (Wayne Scott) wrote:
I just started using D and gdc this week, but I noticed something that
I haven't seen mentioned before.
valgrind works on simple D programs.
Consider this trivial example:
$ cat err.d
void
main()
{
int *j;
*j = 4;
}
$ valgrind --tool=memcheck ./a.out
==27778== Memcheck, a memory error detector for x86-linux.
==27778== Copyright (C) 2002-2004, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward.
==27778== Using valgrind-2.1.1, a program supervision framework for
x86-linux.
==27778== Copyright (C) 2000-2004, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward.
==27778== For more details, rerun with: -v
==27778==
==27778== Invalid write of size 4
==27778== at 0x8049294: _Dmain (err.d:7)
==27778== by 0x80492BA: main (dmain2.d:43)
==27778== Address 0x0 is not stack'd, malloc'd or free'd
==27778==
==27778== Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV):
dumping core
==27778== Access not within mapped region at address 0x0
==27778== at 0x8049294: _Dmain (in /home/wscott/Dlang/a.out)
==27778== by 0x80492BA: main (dmain2.d:43)
==27778==
==27778== ERROR SUMMARY: 2 errors from 2 contexts
==27778== malloc/free: in use at exit: 33440 bytes in 13 blocks.
==27778== malloc/free: 13 allocs, 0 frees, 33440 bytes allocated.
==27778== For a detailed leak analysis, rerun with: --leak-check=yes
==27778== For counts of detected errors, rerun with: -v
The checks work fine and the debug information works.
I haven't had a lot of luck with gdb, so this is handle.
Now we just need to teach valgrind about D's name mangling.
I will try some more complicated ones that invoke the GC and see if
it still works.
-Wayne
Sweet. :) I hope it works well
Jul 26 2004








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