Debugging Dynamic Memory Usage Errors Using HP WDB (5900-1474; WDB 6.2; January 2011)

#4 0x70ee3478 in _start+0xc0 () from /usr/lib/libc.2

(gdb) c

Continuing.

Breakpoint 2, main () at watch-addr.c:13

13 exit(0);

(gdb) q

The program is running. Exit anyway? (y or n) y

Monitoring Allocations Greater Than a Specified size

The set heap-check block-size command instructs WDB to stop the program

and transfer the execution control to the user when the program allocates a heap block

whose size is greater than or equal to <num-bytes>.

Following is the syntax for the set heap-check block-size command:

set heap-check block-size <num-bytes>

Example 8 (page 39) illustrates the use of the set heap-check block-size

command.