Solaris上的Dmalloc

刚刚看到一篇ＳＤＮ的文章，是关于在Solaris上使用Dmalloc工具检测内存泄漏的问题：

http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/dmalloc_solaris.html

很高兴看到Dmalloc能够在Solaris + Sun Studio的环境下可以使用，虽然它也有一些局限，但还是非常有用：

- Dmalloc can detect only memory-related problems in the heap, not in the stack, and not in static memory.

- It can detect bugs only when the memory is allocated with malloc(), not by other means, such as sbrk() or mmap().  

- It cannot detect the following problems, which can be detected by more complicated tools, such as dbx RTC, Purify, and Valgrind, that do much more than replace malloc, realloc, and free:

- Checking stack memory

- Reading from or writing to unallocated memory

- Reading from allocated but uninitialized memory

- Writing to read-only memory

之前Hunter Li和我也一同总结过Solaris下内存泄漏查找的工具(链接)，但是没有很实际的衡量每个工具的局限。不过这回大家可以参考一下这篇文章针对这些工具的比较。