Detecting memory leaks

[Bryce McKinlay]

Jari Korva wrote:

>Thanks for the hint! If I understand correctly, it is C, not GC:
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>Are there any tools that can help me from there? I know that in
>general there are many tools, but are they applicable to gcj and ARM (it
>seems that I'm too lazy to try them myself ;) ?
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Unfortunately I don't know of a tool which can easily help diagnose 
leaks in the native parts of libgcj. valgrind doesn't yet run libgcj, 
unfortunately - I believe this is because its emulation of POSIX signals 
is inadequate.

There are some known leaks in our AWT implementation, for example, (see 
http://gcc.gnu.org/PR16722) so a working leak detector would be very 
nice to help track these down.

Regards

Bryce