Memory Leak tools for Qt on Symbian?

[julian_d77]

Hi

Built into the Symbian SDK there are various tools for use on the emulator that can help identify potential memory and resource leak issues.

There do not appear to be any such tools for the Nokia Qt SDK since the same Emulator (epoc.exe) is not used.

Does anyone know if there are any tools that we can use the assist with Memory leak tracking for Qt on Symbian development?

All suggestions welcome!

Thanks

[divanov]

http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...wn-in-emulator

[danhicksbyron]

QObject::dumpObjectTree against a suspect object will reveal if it's accumulating "trash". Run it against QApplication while doing repeated scroll windows or WebKit calls and you'll find plenty. (Supposedly fixed in 4.7 beta 2.)

<scoll area ptr>->viewport()->ungrabGesture(Qt::PanGesture);

will clean up some of the leaks, when done after one of these: QAbstractScrollArea, QScrollArea, QPlainTextEdit, QTextEdit, QTextBrowser

In general you can track heap growth on Symbian with something like this:

void HeapLeak::updateHeapStats() {
	
#ifdef Q_OS_SYMBIAN
	TInt mem, size, limit;
	User::Heap().AllocSize(mem);
	size = User::Heap().Size();
	limit = User::Heap().MaxLength();
#endif
	ui.countLabel ->setText(QString::number(count));
	ui.countLabel ->update();
#ifdef Q_OS_SYMBIAN
	ui.memLabel ->setText(QString::number(mem));
	ui.memLabel ->update();
	ui.sizeLabel ->setText(QString::number(size));
	ui.sizeLabel ->update();
	ui.limitLabel ->setText(QString::number(limit));
	ui.limitLabel ->update();
#endif

}

[julian_d77]

Thanks both for those suggestions. Its a shame the same memory allocation tools are not usable on the Qt simulator but those 2 suggestions will at least give us some options to try. Cheers