Re: [Valgrind-users] massif & counts per type

[John R. <jr...@bi...>]

On 2020-09-11 at 10:50 UTC, folkert wrote:
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> This morning I came up with an other solution: I made a LD_PRELOAD
> wrapper which counts every malloc-call. Decided that allocated-type is
> not really required in my case, but to know which malloc did it would
> work as well.

For a random C++ program, then most calls to malloc are made by 'operator new'
or some closely-related flavor.  After that comes std::string::alloc<...>.
You *really* want 'heaptrack'.  Get it (and libunwind)!  Use it!
Do not waste your time trying to concoct anything else.