gperftools

gperftools 2.18 is out!

This release contains a number of improvements for the bazel build system, in particular for Windows. Plus a number of correctness fixes.

Notable changes:

• Correctness of C23 sized deallocation (free_sized) vs realloc has been fixed. Previously, free_sized could crash the process when used on reallocated objects. This also significantly changes the behavior of rea...

Couple bugs were found in the recently introduced changes. So this is another point release with some fixes.

There was just one fix submitted since 2.17. graysky has contributed build fix for (legacy, 32-bit) ARMs. Huge thanks!

gperftools 2.17 is out!

We have had a few relatively simple updates since the RC release.

• Salvatore Dipietro has contributed SB instruction support for spinlock delay loops on newer ARMs.

• libgcc backtrace capturing method now handles deep backtraces better.

• PPC+musl users can now workaround some issues building PPC-specific backtrace code by adding TCMALLOC_DISABLE_PPC_FRAME_POIN...

gperftools 2.17rc is out!

2.17 headline changes are removal of heap leak checker and removal of legacy Perl pprof implementation. People should install and use much, much improved pprof implementation from github.com/google/pprof.

Here is a complete list of reasonably notable changes:

• [headline] heap leak checker has been amputated, as promised earlier
• [headline] we don't ship pprof...