malloc and allocation errors

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From: Alan W Black
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 02:15

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A lot of my debugging time is spent looking for allocation errors
(overrunning malloced memory and multiply freed memory).  I know
there are number of proprietary products out there which help
but of course they don't run on multiple machines and I can't
add them to any new machine I get.

Is there a GNU (or at least freely redistributable) version of malloc
which at least keeps track of allocated and freed segments (similar to
what SunOS's /usr/lib/debug/malloc.o does).  I have looked at
gnumalloc which seems to have some hooks in for such things but I
can't find documentation about using it.

thanks

Alan

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