Moreta et al., 2007 - Google Patents

Visualizing dynamic memory allocations

Moreta et al., 2007

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12991664203822453623
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Moreta S
Telea A
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2007 4th IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis

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We present a visualization tool/or dynamic memory allocation information obtained from instrumenting the runtime allocator used by C programs. The goal of the presented visualization techniques is to convey insight in the dynamic behavior of the allocator. The …
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