[Pythonmac-SIG] malloc debugger for OS X?

Jason Petrone jpetrone@cnri.reston.va.us
Tue, 8 Apr 2003 12:01:08 -0400


On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 04:14:55PM +1000, Stuart Bishop wrote:
> Can anyone point me to a malloc debugger that works under OS X and
> can be used for tracking down 'double free' errors in Python C 
> extensions?

I haven't tried using any of these on OS X, but I've used them on other
unix-like platforms:  

valgrind
dmalloc
efence

With the possible exception of valgrind, they shouldn't have any
problems on OS X.  

Jason