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debugging memory leaks

Chris Waterson
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From:	Pierre Etchemaïté <petchema@c...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] debugging memory leaks

Le Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:56:06 -0800, Chris Waterson <waterson@maubi.net> a écrit :

> I have a fairly substantial OCaml application that leaks memory.   
> What tools or techniques do people use to track down memory leaks?   
> Minimally, is there a way to enumerate the live objects in the heap?

There's ocaml-memprof, a compiler patch that adds memory profiling
features to ocaml programs;

Latest update of the patch itself, as far as I know:
http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~smimram/docs/ocaml-3.09.3-memprof.patch

Readme:
http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~smimram/docs/README.memprof