So, shoot me, it is not a slackware question, not even a linux
question. I guess it relates to software that can run on slackware =).
I didn't see a good group to put it in and I like you slackware
people.

I want to detect a memory leak. Valgrind provides useful information
for detecting if one is present by listing the unreachable blocks at
termination in the "memory leak summary". It would be nice however to
issue a command that would provide this memory leak summary in the
middle of the program, maybe before and after suspect code. Any one
know how to do this?

Sample code:

int main(void)
{

while(1)
{
valgrind_leakcheck();

/* Do some shady stuff */

valgrind_leakcheck();
}

return 0;

}

Ofcourse, it is doubtful that a function would exist as valgrind is
like a VM not a library. Maybe there is a way to do this through a
valgrind lauched gdb seesion?

Any thoughts are appreciated,

Zach

elzacho wrote:
> So, shoot me,

ok, if you insist...

READY

AIM

FIRE!

(always happy to oblige. ;-)

> it is not a slackware question, not even a linux
> question. I guess it relates to software that can run on slackware =).
> I didn't see a good group to put it in and I like you slackware
> people.

there are programming groups that would probably be more applicable, but in
this case, i think your best bet would be the valgrind mailing list:

<http://valgrind.org/support/mailing_lists.html>

HTH

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