Thanks David,
But heaptrack even reports a larger number: 153 MB!

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 8:09 PM David Faure <fa...@kde.org> wrote:

> On vendredi 8 février 2019 16:32:50 CET Ahmad Nouralizadeh wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I wrote a really simple Pin tool to calculate the number of dynamically
> > allocated bytes in a program. I instrumented GIMP with this tool and it
> > reported 77 MB of allocations. I did the same experiment with Valgrind
> > which reported 117 MB.
> > My Pin tool is similar to the example in Pin. It searches for malloc(),
> > calloc() and memalign() in each loaded image and adds instructions before
> > them to calculate the total size of the allocations.
> > I am really confused and need help!
>
> If you're on Linux, I recommend using heaptrack for this :-)
> https://github.com/KDAB/heaptrack
>
> This doesn't really answer your question, sorry about that, but you might
> want
> to see which of those tools heaptrack agrees with, it might help finding
> out
> who is wrong...
>
> --
> David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
> Working on KDE Frameworks 5
>
>
>
>
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