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diff --git a/trunk/src/windows/TODO b/trunk/src/windows/TODO new file mode 100644 index 0000000..708ec23 --- /dev/null +++ b/trunk/src/windows/TODO @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +* Get heap-profile-table.cc using DeleteMatchingFiles +* Get heap-profile-table.cc using FillProcSelfMaps, DumpProcSelfMaps +* Play around with ExperimentalGetStackTrace +* Support the windows-level memory-allocation functions? See + /home/build/googleclient/earth/client/tools/memorytracking/client/memorytrace/src/memorytrace.cpp + /home/build/googleclient/total_recall/common/sitestep/* + http://www.internals.com/articles/apispy/apispy.htm + http://www.wheaty.net/APISPY32.zip +* Verify /proc/xxx/maps: + http://www.geocities.com/wah_java_dotnet/procmap/index.html +* Figure out how to edit the executable IAT so tcmalloc.dll is loaded first +* Use QueryPerformanceCounter instead of GetTickCount() (also for sparsehash) + +---- +More info on windows-level memory-allocation functions: + C runtime malloc + LocalAlloc + GlobalAlloc + HeapAlloc + VirtualAlloc + mmap stuff + +malloc, LocalAlloc and GlobalAlloc call HeapAlloc, which calls +VirtualAlloc when needed, which calls VirtualAllocEx (the __sbrk equiv?) + +siggi sez: If you want to do a generic job, you probably need to +preserve the semantics of all of these Win32 calls: + Heap32First + Heap32ListFirst + Heap32ListNext + Heap32Next + HeapAlloc + HeapCompact + HeapCreate + HeapCreateTagsW + HeapDestroy + HeapExtend + HeapFree + HeapLock + HeapQueryInformation + HeapQueryTagW + HeapReAlloc + HeapSetInformation + HeapSize + HeapSummary + HeapUnlock + HeapUsage + HeapValidate + HeapWalk + +kernel32.dll export functions and nt.dll export functions: + http://www.shorthike.com/svn/trunk/tools_win32/dm/lib/kernel32.def + http://undocumented.ntinternals.net/ + +You can edit the executable IAT to have the patching DLL be the +first one loaded. + +Most complete way to intercept system calls is patch the functions +(not the IAT). + +Microsoft has somee built-in routines for heap-checking: + http://support.microsoft.com/kb/268343 + +---- +Itimer replacement: + http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms712713.aspx + +---- +Changes I've had to make to the project file: + +0) When creating the project file, click on "no autogenerated files" + +--- For each project: +1) Alt-F7 -> General -> [pulldown "all configurations" ] -> Output Directory -> $(SolutionDir)$(ConfigurationName) +2) Alt-F7 -> General -> [pulldown "all configurations" ] -> Intermediate Directory -> $(ConfigurationName) + +--- For each .cc file: +1) Alt-F7 -> C/C++ -> General -> [pulldown "all configurations"] -> Additional Include Directives --> src/windows + src/ +2) Alt-F7 -> C/C++ -> Code Generation -> Runtime Library -> Multi-threaded, debug/release, DLL or not + +--- For DLL: +3) Alt-F7 -> Linker -> Input -> [pulldown "all configurations" ] -> Module Definition File -> src\windows\vc7and8.def +--- For binaries depending on a DLL: +3) Right-click on project -> Project Dependencies -> [add dll] +--- For static binaries (not depending on a DLL) +3) Alt-F7 -> C/C++ -> Command Line -> [pulldown "all configurations"] -> /D PERFTOOLS_DLL_DECL= |