[Bro] How can I use the USE_PERFTOOLS_DEBUG ?

[Robin Sommer]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 09:23 -0600, John Donnelly wrote:

> #ifdef USE_PERFTOOLS_DEBUG

What this does is activating perftool's HeapChecker/HeapProfiler
during Bro's main loop (i.e., ignoring of all initialization/shutdown
code, which has known but uninteresting leaks). If you then set the
environment variable HEAPCHECK=local and run Bro with -m, it will
record leaks per
https://google-perftools.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/heap_checker.html.
Similar for heap profiling.

Take a look at the tests in testing/btest/core/leaks, they use this.

Robin

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