Question

I am using google’s heap checker to track down a memory leak. It gives me a stack trace such as:

Leak of 21 bytes in 1 objects allocated from:                                                                                                                                                               
    @ 0xf6088241                                                                                                                                                                                               
    @ 0xf60890d2                                                                                                                                                                                               
    @ 0xf6089246                                                                                                                                                                                               
    @ 0x8054781                                                                                                                                                                                                
    @ 0x8054862                                                                                                                                                                                                
    @ 0xf684ee76                                                                                                                                                                                               
    @ 0xf684f343                                                                                                                                                                                               
    @ 0x804be4c                                                                                                                                                                                                
    @ 0x80544f6                                                                                                                                                                                                
    @ 0xf5e52bb6                                                                                                                                                                                               
    @ 0x804b101  

How do I determine what functions/lines of code these memory addresses correspond to?

Answer 1

Use info symbol gdb command. 16 Examining the Symbol Table.

info symbol addr

Print the name of a symbol which is stored at the address addr. If no symbol is stored exactly at addr, gdb prints the nearest symbol and an offset from it:

(gdb) info symbol 0x54320
_initialize_vx + 396 in section .text

This is the opposite of the info address command. You can use it to find out the name of a variable or a function given its address.

For dynamically linked executables, the name of executable or shared library containing the symbol is also printed:

(gdb) info symbol 0x400225
_start + 5 in section .text of /tmp/a.out
(gdb) info symbol 0x2aaaac2811cf
__read_nocancel + 6 in section .text of /usr/lib64/libc.so.6