[lttng-dev] How to trace a memory leak in my application using LTTng

[Milian Wolff]

On Mittwoch, 5. Mai 2021 12:36:06 CEST bhanu kiran chaluvadi via lttng-dev 
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a memory leak some where in my c++ application.  Since it was
> written in c++98 there are lot of pointer passed back and forth and there
> is no clear ownership of the pointers. I was  wondering if it's possible to
> check for memory leak and give a value sections to probe for the leak using
> LTTng ?  Since i am new, Can you also point me to some sample example to
> track memory leak, in case if they are available or can you provide some
> instructions to use LTTng in order to trace the leak.

While it's probably possible to leverage LTTng for this purpose, I don't think 
it's worthwhile to do so. Better start off with a ready-made tool for this 
purpose, such as heaptrack, LSAN or valgrind's memcheck.

Cheers

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