Re: [Valgrind-developers] displaying addresses symbolically

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

On 29 Oct 2002, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> One of the problems with the output from Helgrind (and memcheck) is that
> the results are somewhat opaque.  They talk about raw memory locations
> rather than programmer-visible objects.  If you're lucky, the location
> is associated with a symbol, but mostly they're just offsets into
> allocated memory, which isn't all that useful.
>
> I'm thinking the best way of making this useful is by getting more
> information out of the debug info (stabs or dwarf).
> [...]
> So, does anyone have a feel for how hard this actually is?

No idea.

But it would be a very useful thing;  I can see this facility would
definitely go in the core, as it could be useful for many skins.

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