Low-level debugging and profiling

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3 total messages Started by Jason Botwick Wed, 22 May 2002 03:35

#1004

Author: Jason Botwick
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 03:35

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I'm interested to hear how people using CW7 & 8 are going about the tasks of
finding memory leaks and also profiling their code. MW used to have some app
called Zone Ranger. But it doesn't support OS X, right? Was it any good/is
it worth downloading anyway for work with Classic apps? Does the new MW
debugger work just as well for low-level stuff?

What about profiling? Do most of you just use the facilities available
within CW, or are there 3rd party tools?

And how about the Windows programmers out there?

Re: Low-level debugging and profiling

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Author: Miro Jurisic
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 05:13

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In article <B910223E.2E29%jbotwick@nc.rr.com>,
 Jason Botwick <jbotwick@nc.rr.com> wrote:

> I'm interested to hear how people using CW7 & 8 are going about the tasks of
> finding memory leaks

Using Malloc Debug on Mac OS X, or ZoneRanger on Mac OS 9

> and also profiling their code. 

Using Sampler on Mac OS X, or MW Profiler on Mac OS 9

> MW used to have some app
> called Zone Ranger. 

And they still do

> But it doesn't support OS X, right? 

Right

> Was it any good

Yes

> /is it worth downloading anyway for work with Classic apps? 

Downloading? It on your CW CD.

> Does the new MW debugger work just as well for low-level stuff?

Huh?

meeroh

Re: Low-level debugging and profiling

#1006

Author: Ben Combee
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 16:33

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In article <B910223E.2E29%jbotwick@nc.rr.com>, jbotwick@nc.rr.com 
says...
> I'm interested to hear how people using CW7 & 8 are going about the tasks of
> finding memory leaks and also profiling their code. .....
> 
> And how about the Windows programmers out there?

On Windows, in-house here at Metrowerks we mostly use VTune for 
profiling and Bounds Checker for memory leak detection.  Both of these 
tools work with the x86 code generated by the MW compiler.  We used to 
have CATS for profiling, but the team that worked on this product is 
mainly focused on the game development space now, with versions of the 
framework for the PS2 and GameCube, but no further work (or sales) for 
Win32 targets.

-- 
Ben Combee <bcombee@metrowerks.com>
CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
Get help at http://palmoswerks.com/

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