Re: MEMORY QUESTION

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From: Ed L Cashin
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:04

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David Peter <dave.peter@eu.citrix.com> writes:

...
> The problem I've found with tools like ElectricFence and dmalloc is
> that they're useless on anything but a trivial application. For a
> real-world application they make it so fat and slow as to be
> unusable.

Sure, because they have great features.  You normally have different
kinds of builds:

      debugging -- the binaries contain info for the debugger

                   maybe lots of memory-checking stuff

      production - the binaries may be stripped

                   memory leaks and problems have been debugged, so no
                   linking against dmalloc 

... if you're using autoconf you can provide a user option like
"--enable-debug" to turn on the debugging build that is not the
default.

-- 
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From: Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coe.uga.edu>
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Subject: Re: MEMORY QUESTION
Date: 15 Jan 2001 11:04:10 -0500
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