Re: [Valgrind-developers] Re: [Valgrind-users] dynamic/static link with libpthread

[Doug R. <df...@nl...>]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 17:41, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 08:15, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> > With debug info, you can catch malloc() calls at instrumentation of first 
> > basic block: make the instrumentation to be a JMP to a replacement function.
> > This should also work in the shared library case.
> > 
> > Isn't this already done ("kludge") in some cases?
> 
> It already does this for libc's malloc.  BTW, you don't need full debug
> info, just a symbol table.

Oh - I assumed this didn't work for static programs. Last time I ran a
static program, V started complaining about bitmap nits inside FreeBSD's
malloc. Looks like a bug in the FreeBSD version :-(