Getting Started with TotalView®
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Memory Debugging
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Finding Dangling Pointers
Finding Dangling Pointers
With memory debugging turned on in TotalView, you can identify a dangling pointer (points into deallocated memory) through additional information in the Variable Windows and the Stack Frame Pane,
Figure 29
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Figure 29:
Dangling Pointers
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On fixing dangling pointers:
“
Fixing Dangling Pointer Problems”
in
Debugging Memory Problems with MemoryScape
On using the command
dheap -is_dangling
: “
Checking for Dangling Pointers: dheap -is_dangling”
in
Debugging Memory Problems with MemoryScape
On fixing dangling pointers: “Fixing Dangling Pointer Problems” in Debugging Memory Problems with MemoryScape