Re: [Valgrind-developers] Generating a Memory Reference String

[Nicholas N. <nj...@cs...>]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Tom Hughes wrote:

>> This is actually quite a noob question. I'm a CS student doing a Final
>> Year Project of my Bachelor's on Virtual Memory in Linux. I'll need to
>> extract memory reference strings from Linux programs. I could either
>> 	(1) find something written by someone
>> or
>> 	(2) modify Valgrind to log every reference.
>> Does anyone know of anything readily available?
>
> I might be being a bit dense here, but what on earth is a memory
> reference string? I've never heard of such a thing before...

I assume he meant a memory access trace.  I've modified Lackey to do this 
if the --trace-mem=yes option is specified, since people ask for this 
about once a month.  It was very simple.  Check out the code from the SVN 
repository to use the new option.

Nick