[fpc-devel]Improvements for heaptrc.pp

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:11:51 GMT
Peter Vreman <peter at freepascal.org> wrote:

> > Here are some suggestions to improve heaptrc.pp.
> > 
> > 1. getmem_cnt, freemem_cnt, getmem_size, freemem_size, getmem8_size, freemem8_size
> should
> be readable via functions in the interface. Very useful for optimization.
> > 
> > 2. QuickTrace = false is very slow, but also very useful. It would be nice to have a
> procedure, that can be called at any time, and that does a big check. For example:
> > 
> > procedure CheckHeap;
> > var p: pointer;
> > begin
> >   QuickTrace:=false;
> >   GetMem(p,4);
> >   FreeMem(p);
> >   QuickTrace:=true;
> > end;
> > 
> > 3. Move QuickTrace into the interface part.

Sorry, the 3. is nonsense. It is already in the interface.

 
> The quicktrace improvement can only be done for the heaptrc available in 1.1. That version
> supports extra information that can have different sizes

How is this related?
The quicktrace flag is just for checking the whole heap. I used it, and it seems to work very nice.


Mattias