Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 23:23:16 -0700
From: Jose M. Gonzalez 
Subject: New LeakTracer Patch

Hi, Erwin. 

I enclose a patch for LT that mixes multiple stack levels with malloc/free 
support. It also includes the following mods:

	- leak-analyze
		- a new option, "-s", that reports the leaks in descending size order 
			(it's cool to know which leaks must be checked first)
		- better support for multiple stack levels
		- reduce gdb's complaint level to 0 (in RHEL WS 4, a 1000 complaint 
			level returns lots of inexistent errors)
		- some typos on the comments

	- LeakTracer.cc
		- some bug fixes
			- when LT couldn't itself malloc/realloc, it died w/o any further 
				message. Now it produces a normal report
		- diachronic leak reporting. If you need to produce a leak report 
			w/o exiting the program you're running, call malloc with the 
			size 0xffffffff. It will produce a report in /tmp/leaktracer.tmpdump
		- when no allocations are requested in the program, LT spits a 
			warning (it sounds really weird to be using LT to debug a program 
			that doesn't use the heap)
		- some typos on the comments

	- test.cc
		- slightly enhanced

Hope it helps. 

Regards. 
-Chema