[LCP]Segmentation Faults when calling free()
Chuck Martin
nrocinu at myrealbox.com
Fri Feb 21 05:54:01 UTC 2003
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 05:03:24PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> Solution? Compile with electric fence, and run in a debugger. Efence
> causes a segfault on the first instruction which writes outside the n bytes
> which you've been specifically allocated (and hence catches overruns,
> underruns, and fencepost errors). Very, very useful for finding bugs like
> this.
Thanks. Where do you get electric fence? Is it free or commercial?
Chuck
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