I'm working on a project where every so often one of our games comes back and we pull the ram off the game for saving, and sometimes for anaylisis. Currently the only varibles in ram that we can physically look at are the static members. The information that we would love to get to is the heap memory and be able to know what dynamically allocated structure that heap memory belongs to.
I have the source code, I have the binarys, I have the ram dumps, I have the boards. Our games have the ability to recover back to the original state that they were in before a power hit, so even though the memory is dynamically allocated, our code is the only running code on the machine and since it runs the code in the same order every time, the pointers get put into the same memory locations every time. What I need to know, is there some way to read the binary with some program to figure out which order everything in memory is being allocated, so that I can write a program to read the memory dump and figure out which memory locations belong to which pointer varibles. Our code is written in C with litteraly tons of pointers. It runs on the i960 processor (yeah I know...soo old...but it works and it costs a lot of money to change once its been approved). Any ideas would be appricated to be able to read the binary to figure out the order in which varibles get loaded onto the heap.
