Mention dotnet-heapview as x-plat tool for viewing .gcdump files (#4147)
authorFilip Navara <filip.navara@gmail.com>
Mon, 21 Aug 2023 22:50:54 +0000 (00:50 +0200)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>
Mon, 21 Aug 2023 22:50:54 +0000 (15:50 -0700)
documentation/dotnet-gcdump-instructions.md

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@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Writing gcdump to 'C:\git\diagnostics\src\Tools\dotnet-gcdump\20191023_042913_24
 
 ## Viewing the gcdump captured from dotnet-gcdump
 
-On Windows, `.gcdump` files can be viewed in [PerfView](https://github.com/microsoft/perfview) for analysis or in Visual Studio. There is not currently a way of opening a `.gcdump` on non-Windows platforms.
+On Windows, `.gcdump` files can be viewed in [PerfView](https://github.com/microsoft/perfview) for analysis or in Visual Studio. On non-Windows platforms, [dotnet-heapview](https://github.com/1hub/dotnet-heapview) can be used as a simple viewer.
 
 You can collect multiple `.gcdump`s and open them simultaneously in Visual Studio to get a comparison experience.