Poireau: a sampling allocation debugger The libpoireau library intercepts a small fraction of calls to malloc/calloc/etc., to generate a statistically representative overview of an application's heap footprint. While the interceptor currently only tracks long-lived allocations (e.g., leaks), we plan to also implement guard pages, in the spirit of Electric Fence. The sampling approach makes it possible to use this library in production with a minimal impact on performance (see the section on Per...