muitv

This project provides a dynamically loaded library with a low-overhead memory allocator that will create and display a tree view of all allocation call stacks in your win32 application.

Integration

Building

• Open vs/muitv.sln solution in Visual Studio 2010+
• Build either debug or release project configuration

Using

• Place 'muitv.h' in your project folder and include it in your source file

#include "muitv.h"

• Place 'muitv.lib' from 'bin' folder to your additional library search folder (project directory by default)
• Add 'muitv.lib' to your project additional library dependencies or import directly from your source file

#pragma comment(lib, "muitv.lib")

• Place 'muitv.dll' to your application executable folder

Configuration

C library memory allocation override

By default, only global new/delete operators are overloaded by the library. In order to provide instrumentation for C library memory allocation functions, before including the 'muitv.h' header file, provide the following definition:

#define MUITV_OVERRIDE_CLIB_MALLOC

(Note that this option is currently only available on x86)

Using the library with custom allocators

If you have a custom allocator that is not based on global operators new/delete or malloc/free, two functions, muitv_add_object and muitv_remove_object are provided to register the objects. Note that global new/delete operators will still be added to the tree and if you want to exclude those, before including the 'muitv.h' header file, provide the following definition:

#define MUITV_MANUAL_ONLY

Library use as an event recorder

As an artifact of the library design, it can be reused to put any call stack to the tree view. In order to create a custom event view, before including the 'muitv.h' header file, provide the following definition:

#define MUITV_MANUAL_ONLY

Use muitv_add_call_stack_to_tree function to log events.

Known issues

Interaction with Incremental Linking

When Incremental Linking is enabled, first link after adding the header to your project might fail with messages about unresolved external functions:

error LNK2005: "void * __cdecl operator new(unsigned int)" (??2@YAPAXI@Z) already defined in MSVCRTD.lib(MSVCR120D.dll)
error LNK2005: "void __cdecl operator delete(void *)" (??3@YAXPAX@Z) already defined in MSVCRTD.lib(MSVCR120D.dll)
error LNK2005: "void * __cdecl operator new[](unsigned int)" (??_U@YAPAXI@Z) already defined in msvcprtd.lib(newaop_s.obj)
error LNK2005: "void __cdecl operator delete[](void *)" (??_V@YAXPAX@Z) already defined in MSVCRTD.lib(MSVCR120D.dll)

Just link your project a second time to resolve this issue.

C allocation function override

When MUITV_OVERRIDE_CLIB_MALLOC is in use, the library will attempt to patch the malloc/calloc/realloc/free functions in memory. Depending on the execution order and contents of global initializers in your application, some allocation might have happened before the override and the application will crash.