EXTEND_DMALLOC(1)

💖 extend_dmalloc — bestie edition 💖

okay so like, this is EXTEND_DMALLOC(1) from the [FIXME: manual] section of the manual pages, and honestly? she's niche but she's useful. come sit with me. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

extend_dmalloc — Analyze return-addresses from dmalloc logfiles.

like, it takes your dmalloc logfile and makes the return-addresses make sense. main character behaviour fr fr.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

extend_dmalloc [dmalloc-log binary]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the vibe: extend_dmalloc will run gdb(1) to get information on the return-addresses from a dmalloc(1) logfile. yes, it's calling in the big guns (gdb) to do the detective work. 🔍

specifically — and this is the important bit — it will examine any ra= lines and try to get the corresponding line numbers. so those cryptic little ra= lines? she's translating them. slay. 💅

the argument binary must be the binary that generated the log dmalloc-log. no random binary, bestie, it has to be the one that made the log, otherwise the whole thing is giving nonsense. 😭

ngl this utility is part of the KDE Software Development Kit. that's her house. that's where she lives. 👑

🎀 NOTES 🎀

you may wish to direct the output from extend_dmalloc to a file — because otherwise gdb seems to prompt for a return as if you are at the end of a page. 😩

like, it's not broken, it's just... pausing dramatically. so redirect it to a file and let her cook. 🔥

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> Author.

literally the icon who wrote this. periodt. 👑

🙈 heads up: this manual's source and version line is marked [FIXME: source], and the page is dated 2003-04-07. so yeah, she's an elder. respect her. ⭐

okay that's the whole page bestie, go run it and go off 💖🌈🧚