HP gnu source-level debugger 5992-4701 Scenarios in memory debugging, Batch Mode, Heap Profiling

14.10.8 Scenarios in memory debugging	174
14.10.8.1 Stop when freeing unallocated or deallocated blocks	174
14.10.8.2 Stop when freeing a block if bad writes occurred outside block
boundary	174
14.10.8.3 Stop when a specified block address is allocated or deallocated	175
14.10.8.4 Scramble previous memory contents at malloc/free calls	175
14.10.8.5 Detect dangling pointers and dangling blocks	175
14.10.8.6 Detect in-block corruption of freed blocks	176
14.10.8.7 Specify the amount of guard bytes for every block of allocated
memory	176
14.10.9 Comparison of Memory Debugging Commands in Interactive Mode and
Batch Mode	176
14.10.10 Heap Profiling	178
14.10.10.1 Commands for heap profiling	178
14.10.10.2 info heap arena	179
14.10.10.3 info heap arena [0 12..] blocks stacks	179
14.10.10.4 info module ADDRESS	179
14.10.10.5 info heap process	179
14.10.10.6 Example for heap profiling	179
14.10.11 Memory Checking Analysis for User Defined Memory Management
Routines	180
14.10.12 Commands to track the change in data segment value	180
14.11 Thread Debugging Support	181
14.11.1 Support for Enabling and Disabling Specific Threads	181
14.11.2 Backtrace Support for Thread Debugging	182
14.11.3 Advanced Thread Debugging Support	182
14.11.3.1 Pre-requisites for Advanced Thread Debugging	183
14.11.3.2 Enabling and Disabling Advanced Thread Debugging Features	183
14.11.3.3 Commands to view information on pthread primitives	187
14.11.4 Debugging Threads Interactively After Attaching to a Process	187
14.11.5 Thread Debugging in Batch Mode	189
14.11.5.1 Pre-requisites for Batch mode of Thread Debugging	190
14.11.5.2 Limitations in Batch mode of thread debugging	193
14.11.6 Thread Debugging in +check Mode	193
14.11.7 Known issues with Thread Debugging for Interactive and Batch mode	194
14.12 Debugging MPI Programs	194
14.13 Debugging multiple processes ( programs with fork and vfork calls)	195
14.13.1 Ask mode for set follow-fork-mode	195
14.13.2 Serial mode for set follow-fork-mode	195
14.13.3 Support for showing unwind info	195
14.13.4 Printing CFM and PFS registers	196
14.14 Command to Search for a Pattern in the Memory Address Space	196
14.15 Debugging Core Files	200
14.15.1 Generating core files with packcore /unpackcore/getcore	200

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