Contributed by rueda on from the ottomalloc-has-your-back(trace) dept.
Otto Moerbeek (otto@), the author of OpenBSD's
malloc(3)
implementation, has
comitted
another great feature - backtraces for leak detection:
CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: otto@cvs.openbsd.org 2023/12/04 00:01:45 Modified files: lib/libc/stdlib: malloc.3 malloc.c Log message: Save backtraces to show in leak dump. Depth of backtrace set by malloc option D (aka 1), 2, 3 or 4. No performance impact if not used. ok asou@
Otto's
original message
to tech@
includes an example use of the feature.
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