[webkit-dev] If you like writing memory smashers, you'll love this

Mark Rowe mrowe at apple.com
Mon Dec 15 17:42:58 PST 2014


> On Dec 15, 2014, at 17:31, Geoffrey Garen <ggaren at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> As of r177317, FastMalloc can be disabled at runtime. This means that you can use system memory analysis tools like GuardMalloc, MallocScribble, Instruments allocation tracking, leaks, and heap to debug memory issues in WebKit nightly builds, spade builds, and release builds.

Is this in reference to bmalloc? Instruments allocation tracking, leaks, and heap were supported with TCMalloc-based FastMalloc for quite some time.

- Mark



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