Show HN: Heap Explorer
bkallus
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Summary
by metafa.stThe article introduces Heap Explorer, an open-source tool that allows users to analyze and visualize the heap memory of a running process on Windows. It provides a detailed overview of the tool's features, including the ability to track heap allocations, detect memory leaks, and identify heap corruption issues.
I wrote a little LD_PRELOAD library that makes it easy to inspect and interact with a running program's glibc heap.
It's fun to pause processes, free a bunch of their allocations, then resume them. Most of the time, the processes continue as though nothing happened, but sometimes they do interesting things :)