LMDBG 0.17.0

LMDBG is an application that allows detecting memory leaksand double frees. However, unlike others, LMDBG generates *FULL* stacktracesand separates logging from analysis thusallowing to analyse an application on per-module basis.

- lmdbg-run is a main lmdbg utility. It runs an application and creates a log file (or fifo) where all called malloc/calloc/realloc/free/memalign/posix_memalign invocations are registered with their input (bytes count, pointer), output (pointer) and (!!!uniques feature!!!) FULL STACKTRACE (pointers).

Example:

     $ cat tests/test2.c
     #include

     int main ()
     {
        void *p1 = NULL;
        void *p2 = NULL;

        p1 = malloc (555);
        p2 = realloc (p2, 666);
        p2 = realloc (p2, 777);
        p2 = realloc (p2, 888);

        return 0;
     }
     $ gcc -O0 -g -o _test2 tests/test2.c
     $ lmdbg-run -o _log ./_test2
     $ cat _log
     malloc ( 555 ) --> 0xbb901400
      0xbbbe58e8
      0xbbbe5b03
      0x8048738
      0x8048584
      0x80484e7
     realloc ( NULL , 666 ) --> 0xbb901800
      0xbbbe58e8
      0xbbbe5a37
      0x804874e
      0x8048584
      0x80484e7
     realloc ( 0xbb901800 , 777 ) --> 0xbb901c00
      0xbbbe58e8
      0xbbbe5a37
      0x8048764
      0x8048584
      0x80484e7
     realloc ( 0xbb901c00 , 888 ) --> 0xbb901800
      0xbbbe58e8
      0xbbbe5a37
      0x804877a
      0x8048584
      0x80484e7
     $

NOTE: Full stacktrace allows you to analyse your application, i.e. you can detect what blocks/components require more memory than others and why. lmdbg-sym is a very important tool for this, see below.

- lmdbg-leaks analyses a log file generated by lmdbg-run and output all found memory leaks

Example:

     $ lmdbg-leaks _log  
     realloc ( 0xbb901c00 , 888 ) --> 0xbb901800
      0xbbbe58e8
      0xbbbe5a37
      0x804877a
      0x8048584
      0x80484e7
     malloc ( 555 ) --> 0xbb901400
      0xbbbe58e8
      0xbbbe5b03
      0x8048738
      0x8048584
      0x80484e7
     $

- lmdbg-sym converts addresses to source.c:999 if it is possible

Example (gdb(1) is in action):

     $ lmdbg-sym ./_test2 _log
     malloc ( 555 ) --> 0xbb901400
      0xbbbe58e8
      0xbbbe5b03
      0x8048738      tests/test2.c:8 main
      0x8048584
      0x80484e7
     realloc ( NULL , 666 ) --> 0xbb901800
      0xbbbe58e8
      0xbbbe5a37
      0x804874e      tests/test2.c:9 main
      0x8048584
      0x80484e7
     realloc ( 0xbb901800 , 777 ) --> 0xbb901c00
      0xbbbe58e8
      0xbbbe5a37
      0x8048764      tests/test2.c:10        main
      0x8048584
      0x80484e7
     realloc ( 0xbb901c00 , 888 ) --> 0xbb901800
      0xbbbe58e8
      0xbbbe5a37
      0x804877a      tests/test2.c:11        main
      0x8048584
      0x80484e7
     $

Example (addr2line(1) works here):

     $ lmdbg-sym -a ./_test2 _log
     malloc ( 555 ) --> 0xbb901400
      0xbbbe58e8
      0xbbbe5b03
      0x8048738      tests/test2.c:8
      0x8048584
      0x80484e7
     realloc ( NULL , 666 ) --> 0xbb901800
      0xbbbe58e8
      0xbbbe5a37
      0x804874e      tests/test2.c:9
      0x8048584
      0x80484e7
     realloc ( 0xbb901800 , 777 ) --> 0xbb901c00
      0xbbbe58e8
      0xbbbe5a37
      0x8048764      tests/test2.c:10
      0x8048584
      0x80484e7
     realloc ( 0xbb901c00 , 888 ) --> 0xbb901800
      0xbbbe58e8
      0xbbbe5a37
      0x804877a      tests/test2.c:11
      0x8048584
      0x80484e7
     $

- lmdbg-sysleaks - greps or skips system memory leaks found in libc, libdl, C++ stl etc. See tests/lmdbg*.conf files. The default config files are: ~/.lmdbg.conf and /etc/lmdbg.conf

- lmdbg = lmdbg-run + lmdbg-leaks + lmdbg-sym + lmdbg-sysleaks

That is lmdbg is all-in-one higher level tool.

Example:

     $ lmdbg -v -o _log ./_test2
     Memory leaks were detected and saved to file '_log'
     $ cat _log
     realloc ( 0xbb901c00 , 888 ) --> 0xbb901800
      0xbbbe58e8
      0xbbbe5a37
      0x804877a      tests/test2.c:11        main
      0x8048584
      0x80484e7
     malloc ( 555 ) --> 0xbb901400
      0xbbbe58e8
      0xbbbe5b03
      0x8048738      tests/test2.c:8 main
      0x8048584
      0x80484e7
     $

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· This version adds a lot of improvements and fixes in manual pages, new capabilities in lmdbg, lmdbg-run, and lmdbg-sym, and minor fixes to lmdbg-stat.
· lmdbg is now a meta tool which is able to do many more things, not just find memory leaks.