Re: question (preference?) about xmalloc

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, May 3, 2000 at 11:46:27 (-0400), Larry Jones wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: question (preference?) about xmalloc
>
> Noel L Yap writes:
> > 
> > Hopefully, many eyes will tend to spot wild-pointer errors.
> 
> I prefer the cybernetic eyes of Purify and similar tools -- I run a
> Purified version of CVS through the test suite every now and then and
> there are currently no errors (although there are still a *lot* of
> leaks).

Indeed.  I've been maintaining another rather sizable and extremely
security sensitive application for a number of years now that has its
own malloc()/realloc()/free() wrappers, and while these haven't been
much of a direct hindrance they've been far far far less useful than
even the freely available tools, such as Kiem-Phong Vo's (AT&T) Vmalloc,
Mark Moraes' debugging mmalloc, Gray Watson's dmalloc, Doug Lea's
dlmalloc, ElectricFence, and so on.

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