Debugging app on linux

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originally posted by shakthi@Jun 21 2006, 03:13 PM

debug utility provided for debugging app on uclinux with gdb make the linux either hang or crash. i am working on a very time sensitive application in which i would like to find out if there are any memory leaks. how can i do that and also would like to do some back tracing. can u suggest some way of doing this using ptrace system call, if there are no utilities avaliable.

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There are ptrace() support in nios2 kernel,

arch/nios2nommu/kernel/ptrace.c

But I never use it, and don&#39;t know if it works properly. (let know if you try it)