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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Hei Chan <structurechart@yahoo.com>
Cc: "gdb\@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Memory Dump
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Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 20:25:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <1335710405.38804.YahooMailNeo@web162403.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> (Hei	Chan's message of "Sun, 29 Apr 2012 07:40:05 -0700 (PDT)")
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>>>>> "Hei" == Hei Chan <structurechart@yahoo.com> writes:

Hei> I wonder whether it is possible to dump all the objects created in the
Hei> memory at the moment with GDB (I am on v7.0.1).

Hei> What I am trying to achieve is to identify which types of objects take
Hei> up most of the memory at the moment.

In addition to the other answers, you might be interested in gdb-heap:

    https://fedorahosted.org/gdb-heap/

Tom