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Poireau: A Sampling Allocation Debugger

https://github.com/backtrace-labs/poireau

by Reventlov • 6 years ago

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sild• 6 years ago

See also GWP-ASan: http://llvm.org/docs/GwpAsan.html

cure• 6 years ago

Odd name, French for 'leek'. Maybe they were thinking of Poirot?

jnurmine• 6 years ago

It's quite passing. They are looking for leaks ("leeks").

"The libpoireau library intercepts a small fraction of calls to malloc/calloc/etc., to generate a statistically representative overview of an application's heap footprint. While the interceptor currently only tracks long-lived allocations (e.g., leaks) ..."

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