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

$ gdb high

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(gdb) b 40 /*set a breakpoint at the end of your application to view

the highest break value for the current run*/

Breakpoint 1 at 0x4000b90:2: file high.c, line 40 from high.

(gdb) set heap-check on

(gdb) r

Starting program: high

Breakpoint 1, main () at high.c:40

40 };

(gdb) info heap high-mem

Analyzing heap ...

High memory mark stat

High water mark updated count: 2

No. Total bytes Blocks Address Function

0 100 1 0x4044ff20 func2()

(gdb)

Case 2: The set heap-check high-mem-count <X_number> command stops

execution when the break value has moved <X_number> of times.