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For Immediate Release Barry Software Releases Public Alpha of BugSpray for Mac OS X May 9, 2002: Barry Software announces the immediate availability of a public alpha of BugSpray, the new automated debugging tool for Carbon Mac OS X developers. WHAT IS BUGSPRAY? BugSpray is an automated debugging tool - instead of waiting for your program to crash, BugSpray closely monitors the executable code and catches problems at the exact point they occur - rather than at the point that the computer crashes - which can be completely unrelated. BugSpray specializes in the hard to find memory errors, involving out-of-bounds memory accesses, accessing stale memory blocks - the sorts of errors that can take weeks to nail down, or only appear in non-easily reproducible situations (e.g. during a demo to your most important client). While the memory protection of Mac OS X is great for catching NULL pointers and those uninitialized pointers that allowed you to crash other programs (or the OS), it still allows corrupting your own data, usually by corrupting your heap - which can be the most difficult errors to pinpoint. BugSpray uses a technique called 'instrumentation', allowing it to monitor every memory access your program makes which combined with an accurate map of all of the memory blocks in use by your program, allows BugSpray to validate memory accesses far more precisely than the processor's MMU. COMPATIBILITY BugSpray requires Mac OS X v10.1or greater, and is restricted to debugging Carbon Mach-O applications. (Project Builder or Mach-O CodeWarrior(TM) projects) AVAILABILITY Copies of BugSpray are available for downloading at http://www.barrysoftware.com/BugSpray.html The alpha builds of BugSpray can be downloaded for free, but will expire each month. BugSpray has an expected US retail price of $149.95, which will include all upgrades and support for a year. ABOUT BARRY SOFTWARE Barry Software is headed by Andrew Barry, a premier developer of Macintosh development tools - including begin the original developer of Spotlight(TM), the acclaimed automated debugging tool for Mac OS 9, as well as being the original developer of REALbasic(TM), the award winning BASIC development environment for Mac OS 9/OS X. __________________________ Please visit our sponsors: RadGad(sm): The Place for Useful Gifts & Gadgets.(sm) http://www.radgad.com/, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 877-5-RADGAD MacTech(r) Magazine: The journal of Macintosh technology and development http://www.mactech.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 805-494-9797 DevDepot(sm): Your Source for RAM, Technical & Developer Products http://www.devdepot.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 877-DEPOT-NOW To submit a posting to MacDev-1, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. To subscribe to MacDev-1, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the SUBJECT line reading "SUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". To unsubscribe, the SUBJECT line should read "UNSUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". MacTech, Developer Depot, RadGad, and Xplain Corporation are not responsible for any errors, omissions, or other inaccuracies in this message. News may be propagated freely, but please attribute your source as MacTech Magazine, <http://www.mactech.com>. --
