ian reinhart geiser on Wed, 20 Mar 2002 22:30:15 +0100


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Re: [PLUG] If you do C/C++ on Linux you need this


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On Wednesday 20 March 2002 03:29 pm, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 02:39:53PM -0500, ian reinhart geiser wrote:
> > 	We have grown up with gdb to debug our code all of these years, but gdb
> > is only useful once you have a bug.  Ever want to scan your binary to
> > find out where the bugs are in the first place?
> >
> > 	http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/
>
> What's it do that ElectricFence doesn't?
I think this is a little more extensive because it intercepts all system 
calls, so it can find access violations and allocation problems that 
ElectricFence will miss.

I have not used electric fence though so I cannot say for sure, I use to use 
ccmalloc, and that sucked.  This is lightyears better. 

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