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- From: cpcahil@vti.com (Conor P. Cahill)
- Subject: Re: SEGV inside malloc() - This shouldn't happen!
- Message-ID: <C1B6v8.Ixn@vti.com>
- Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
- References: <C1893A.5t9@vti.com> <1993Jan22.215835.25188@sj.ate.slb.com>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 13:30:43 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.215835.25188@sj.ate.slb.com>, poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
- >
- > The best product I have seen is called "purify". It is not a debugger, but
- > rather instruments your module at link time. No funny macros, no funny
- > switches, just a change of your link line from "cc ..." to "purify cc ...",
- > then run the program. It will report memory overwrites, uninitialized
- > pointer usage, and memory leaks.
-
- This is very similar to how SENTINEL works. No funny macros, no funny
- switches, just change your link line from "cc .... " to "cc ... -lsent .."
- then run the program.
-
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