Re:Should programmers learn machine code?
by jacquesm on Sunday September 06, 2009 @06:25PM
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I can see a way to build it fairly simply.
The object information is readily accessible when you compile your program with -pg, the memory map is accessible through /proc, it shouldn't be too hard to couple the one to the other and make a nice display. If you are clever about it you might even be able to fish out what memory is filled with what type of data, and colour the map accordingly.
No millions required, unix is pretty clean when it comes to stuff like this.
Some joker had written a shell replacement based on 'doom' where you could literally shoot the processes. You had to hunt them down first of course...
The object information is readily accessible when you compile your program with -pg, the memory map is accessible through /proc, it shouldn't be too hard to couple the one to the other and make a nice display. If you are clever about it you might even be able to fish out what memory is filled with what type of data, and colour the map accordingly.
No millions required, unix is pretty clean when it comes to stuff like this.
Some joker had written a shell replacement based on 'doom' where you could literally shoot the processes. You had to hunt them down first of course...