On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Brandon Erhart wrote: > Are there any debuggers out there for BSD that will detect the heap/stack > corruption!?
[standard disclaimer and note about self-promotion goes here :)] valgrind and electric fence are very good suggestions. my own personal pet project was adding guard pages to the system malloc. then linking malloc.conf -> AFGJ or setenv MALLOC_OPTIONS and you can find bugs in all the software you run. it's less complete than a dedicated heap checker, but lightweight enough (well, 20% penalty may not be light for some) that i run with it full time. we've had a fairly significant amount of success with it finding bugs in software that just happened to work. http://www.zeitbombe.org/patches/malloc_guard.diff should apply pretty cleanly to freebsd's malloc.c -- _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
