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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 09:21:49 +0530
From: Srinivasan J <srinidpdk@...il.com>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Dumping process heap from the core file

Hi Rich,
            Thank you for replying. Unfortunately, I need to debug a
core which used musl-libc version v1.1.24 to get details about size of
allocations in the heap. I see that mal.heap is no longer valid since
2015 [commit e3bc22f1eff87b8f029a6ab31f1a269d69e4b053].  So as you
said the only way to walk the heap would be using a patched libc.so?
Please do share any pointers.

Reference:
https://patchwork.criu.org/patch/10472/

Regards,
Srini

On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 9:20 PM Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 07:39:54AM +0530, Srinivasan J wrote:
> > Hi,
> >     Is there an easy way to dump the heap from the process core which
> > is using musl-libc? The process is using musl-libc version v1.1.24. I
> > see that there is a _dump_heap() function, but that's not up to date.
> > I am thinking about using _dump_heap() as reference. But any other
> > suggestions are welcome.
>
> The mallocng heap structures are actually more walkable. There is
> intentionally no public interface for doing this, but I have some
> debug code left over from development that you could link into
> static-linked programs with a particular known musl/mallocng version
> or patch into libc.so for debugging purposes. I'll dig it up and post
> it. Ping me if I forget about it.
>
> Rich

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