Function counting script

Jim White jim at pagesmiths.com
Sun Mar 19 12:45:34 CST 2006


Joris Huizer wrote:

> Segin wrote:
> 
>> It's not a C interpeter, it's literally a frint end of sorts to grep. 
>> There's only one textual occurence of malloc() in the code, so it only 
>> returns one.
>>
>> Think before you speak.
>>
>> P.S. I'll add a C interpeter when there becomes a need for one.
>>
> 
> It was my impression that the goal was to find leaks by counting 
> allocating and freeing of memory;
> My example was about that: the counts do not have to indicate correct 
> usage of malloc()/free()
> Sorry if this was an incorrect assumption

Right.  And by reading the code that is doing alloc/free you can 
determine if they are balanaced.  But first you have to *find* where 
those calls are made.

Jim




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