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v8 findleaks command

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#101 opened on Jun 19, 2017

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Could we have a v8 findleaks command, that found leaked objects? This might be something that requires v8 changes to understand allocations. Plenty of prior work in this area, of course, even one from my CEO: http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs343/resources/cs343-annot-purify.pdf

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Investigate V8's heap allocation tracking and existing leak detection tools. Study the llnode plugin architecture to understand how to add a new command.
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cpp
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tooling
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5
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C++V8 internals
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20