Re: [Valgrind-developers] Mempool patch

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

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Robert Walsh wrote:

> > Also, it looks like Addrcheck and Memcheck handle pools, but Massif and
> > Helgrind don't.  The amount of code that must be written for any tool to
> > do malloc interception is already unfortunately high (I've tried several
> > times to reduce it, but have never got anywhere) and it looks like
> > supporting mempools requires a decent amount of pretty boilerplate-ish
> > code to be added (viz that in mac_malloc_wrappers.c)... hmm.
>
> Hmm.  I hadn't really paid much attention to anything other than
> Addrcheck and Memcheck, I have to admit.  The mempool stuff should not
> effect them negatively if it's not handled in there, so that's something
> else that could be added in later, too, if needed.
>
> For the moment, I'd just like to get the current mempool implementation
> in place, so that: 1) other people can play with it and suggest
> improvements; 2) someone else might get to finish off the missing bits
> for the other skins... ;-)

Can you just wait a day or two while I look again to see if it's possible
to streamline the malloc replacement code used by tools?  If I don't find
anything useful, I'll be happy with your commit.

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