Here's a diagram of the relation between these objects that I drew a while back:
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1V3JZltHfNU0HN9bPlLrHOC_yYTriPgv4Dv-LRamymFU/edit?hl=en_US It might not be 100% accurate anymore. Adam On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Scott Graham <scot...@chromium.org> wrote: > Hi, > I've been trying to debug some lifetime issues in Loader-related code. I was > finding it quite challenging to visualize how the objects connect and > interrelate, especially as links change over time. To help a bit, I wrote a > small python script for gdb that displays a graph of related > objects. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65574 > The dump/view part of it is written somewhat generically and takes a map of > types to operate on. It allows for collapsing logically connected objects > into one graph node in the diagram to avoid huge sprawl. (see attached > diagram where e.g. m_ptr RefPtrs are collapsed into their containing > object). > I've only defined the type map for a viewer for Loader-related objects > ("viewloadergraph" in gdb) but it should be obvious how to add a similar > command for other subsystems. Perhaps it will be useful to someone, or > someone'll have an idea to make it more useful. > scott > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
