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Memory Tracing

Cactus provides a mechanism for overriding the standard C memory allocation routines (malloc, free, ...) with Cactus specific routines that track the amount of memory allocated, and from where, the allocation call was made. This information can be accessed by the user to provide an understanding of the memory consumption between two instances, and to track down possible memory leaks. This feature is available in C only.



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