Retrieving the memory map of its own process in OS X 10.5/10.6

Question

In Linux, the easiest way to look at a process\' memory map is looking at /proc/PID/maps, giving something like this:

08048000-08056000 r-xp 00000000         


        

Answer 1

A couple more links for those looking for vmmap source (it's not published):

• http://www.newosxbook.com/src.jl?tree=listings&file=12-1-vmmap.c
• https://code.google.com/p/psutil/source/browse/psutil/_psutil_osx.c#274 (get_process_memory_maps) and https://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/detail?id=260

Getting the the mapped file name and the names of libraries from dyld_shared_cache: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17180619/1026