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Electric Fence is a different kind of malloc() debugger. It uses the virtual
memory hardware of your system to detect when software overruns the boundaries
of a malloc() buffer. It will also detect any accesses of memory that has
been released by free(). Because it uses the VM hardware for detection,
Electric Fence stops your program on the first instruction that causes
a bounds violation. It's then trivial to use a debugger to display the
offending statement.
This version should run on all systems that support POSIX mmap() and
mprotect(). This includes Linux, Unix, and I think even BeOS.
Complete information on the use of Electric Fence is in the manual page
libefence.3 .
Thanks
Bruce Perens
bruce@perens.com
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