245445 - leaky crashed

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[Boying Lu]

I want to check memory leaks against the latest trunk code by using leaky. 
BTW: purify doesn't work.

The following is the re-produce steps:
1. build mozilla with --enable-leaky and --enable-debug options
2. start mozilla 

Two files malloc-log and malloc-map will be generated

according to the instrutions at http://www.mozilla.org/unix/leaky.html
I use the following command to generate an "graph" output
./leaky -gqx mozilla-bin malloc-log | c++filt | sed -e 's/&/&/g' > leak.html
then I got a zero sized leak.html
The reason is ./leaky -gqx mozilla-bin malloc-log will crash and generate a
segement fault error.
I tried to replace "mozilla-bin" with "mozilla". There is no help.

I wonder if there some tools that I can use it to check memory leaks against
mozilla.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

leaky is obsolete.

See:
http://www.mozilla.org/performance/leak-brownbag.html
http://www.mozilla.org/performance/leak-tutorial.html