Name: Henning Meyer: Investigating C++ Core Dumps in Depth
Start: 2025-08-26T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-08-26T21:00:00+02:00

This time we are having a shared event in cooperation with the Greek C++ Community Group [\[GRCCP\]](https://www.meetup.com/grcpp-athens/):

Core Explorer is new a tool for analysing core dumps. Debugging with core dumps comes with several challenges when compared to debugging a live process. Core Explorer offers new methods to find C++ objects in program memory and to reconstruct heap allocations. This can be used to investigate memory corruption and memory leaks in C++ applications, particularly when combined with time-travel debugging.
Outline:

1. Generically traverse any container using debug information and decompilation
2. Reverse engineer heap allocations from memory contents and libc debug information
3. Run a conservative garbage collector in leak detection mode
4. Find the exact instruction causing a memory leak with time travel debugging (WIP)

Our Speaker:
Henning Meyer has fifteen years of professional experience in C++ across several companies, including hardware-accelerated high performance computing, high frequency trading, embedded real-time signal analysis and legacy enterprise applications. He holds a PhD in Algebraic Geometry.

Andreas Maniotis

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