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Package to detect malloc squashing

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From: Robert McMillin
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.
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From: rlm@netcom.netcom.com (Robert McMillin)
Subject: Package to detect malloc squashing
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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1993 16:31:03 GMT
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