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. -WayneSweet. :) I hope it works well
Jul 26 2004