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Article #2335Package to detect malloc squashing
From: Robert McMillin
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1993 16:31
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1993 16:31
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I am looking for a package I seem to remember was announced some time ago, but don't quite know if I was (a) hallucinating at the time or (b) have misremembered what the package was really for. I seem to be having some trouble with malloc/free memory smashes. I'm writing an X program, and have isolated the problem (ha!) by #define-ing out XtFree(). I then have an incredible memory leak, but at least things don't crash. I seem to remember that there was a GNU utility that detected when someone tried to re-free an already-freed pointer, etc. If you can help me out, please e-mail in addition to posting, as this isn't the site I usually read news from. -- Robert L. McMillin | rlm@helen.surfcty.com (preferred) | rlm@netcom.com "[The] Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to go through it." -- John Evans, Pres. of News Corp.'s Electronic Data division, on why that company purchased Delphi Internet Services Corp.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11318c,d282ab80afa9b0e4,start X-Google-Attributes: gid11318c,public X-Google-Thread: fa261,d282ab80afa9b0e4,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfa261,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,d282ab80afa9b0e4,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-11-22 08:58:37 PST Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,gnu.gcc.help,gnu.utils Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!nigel.msen.com!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!netcom!rlm From: rlm@netcom.netcom.com (Robert McMillin) Subject: Package to detect malloc squashing Message-ID: <RLM.93Nov22083103@netcom.netcom.com> Sender: rlm@netcom.com (Robert McMillin) Reply-To: rlm@helen.surfcty.com,rlm@netcom.com Organization: Charlie Don't CERF Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1993 16:31:03 GMT Lines: 16