Yes, it seems clear that the unlabelled ones are my own. That's why I was
hoping to label them. Oh well, it would seem I can't. Back to the old
fashioned methods.
Thanks, Steve.
George
> At 11:01 PM -0400 5/4/99, George A. Madrid wrote:
>>The Debug Console feature in CWIDE allows me to perform a 'hd' command.
>>This command dumps all of the chunks in a heap out to the screen. At the
>>end of each line in this list (right after the flags field) is what appears
>>to be a tag of some kind that lets you know what type of chunk it is. Where
>>does this information come from, and how can I define it for my own memory
>>allocations?
>>
>>I'm trying to track down a memory leak, and this capability would be
>>incredibly useful. For example, it told me that several of the chunks were
>>DmOpenRef structures for the same db, so I knew that I was failing to call
>>DmCloseDatabase and found the problem in a matter of minutes.
>
> This information is built-in to the Debug Console (which is based on
> code from the Palm Debugger application). Neither one is extensible
> in terms of providing your own ability to provide chunk information.
>
> Most of the chunks that Palm OS(TM) knows about are labeled for you,
> which should leave very few "unknown" chunks. The unlabeled chunks
> are almost always chunks that have been allocated (directly or
> indirectly) by your application.
> --Steve
>
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