Totalview® Getting Started Guide
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Getting Started with TotalView Products
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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
RELATED TOPICS
Fixing dangling pointers
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Fixing Dangling Pointer Problems”
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Debugging Memory Problems with MemoryScape
Using the command
dheap -is_dangling
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Checking for Dangling Pointers:
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dheap -is_dangling
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Debugging Memory Problems with MemoryScape
