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- Short: Memory Checker
- Type: util/misc
- Uploader: cosinus@deepthought.north.de
- Author: atte@crash.north.de
-
- System requirements: Kickstart 2.04+
-
-
- Copyright
- =========
-
- MemCheck 37.2 (Release 1.0) - Copyright © 1994 by Andreas Gelhausen,
- all rights reserved.
-
- MemCheck is freely distributable. No part of this archive is allowed
- to be distributed with commercial software without written permission
- of the author.
-
-
- No Warranty
- ===========
-
- No warranties are made for this program. All use is at your own risk.
- No liability or responsibility is assumed for any damages occured
- during the usage of MemCheck. You have been warned.
-
-
- Usage
- =====
-
- MemCheck is a small utility that allows you to test your memory on
- two different ways.
-
- SEGMENT TEST: This function checks all elements (memory segments) of
- exec's memlist (each segment from start address to end address).
- Each longword will be initialized through a certain value. If this
- certain value will not be found after initialization, a chip of
- the memory segment is defect.
-
- ADDRESS TEST: The free memory will be allocated and all longwords
- will be initialized with their own addresses. Then MemCheck checks
- the values of each allocated longword. If a longword has a value
- that is different from its own address, something is going wrong
- in your system. In this case data will be written to wrong
- addresses.
-
- Example: My A2630 have had a defect logical chip. Many system
- crashes were the result. Something like
-
- '*** ERROR AT ADDRESS: $00201042 VALUE: $00209042'
-
- has shown me, that the fifteenth bit was sometimes wrong.
-
-
- You can select the following options:
-
- TOOLPRI/K/N: You can set the task priority of memcheck from -128
- to 127. Example: 'memcheck toolpri=1'
-
- LOOP/S: If you select this option, MemCheck will run till you break
- the process through a CTRL-C or CTRL-D.
-
-
- How to reach the author
- =======================
-
- If you have questions, suggestions, bug reports or anything else,
- you can send electronic mails to:
-
- atte@crash.north.de (Andreas Gelhausen)
- or
- 2:2426/2020.24 (on FidoNet)
-
- If it is not possible for you to use this way, you can also send
- letters to:
-
- Andreas Gelhausen
- Graf Spee Str. 23b
- 26123 Oldenburg
- - Germany -
-
-