Electric Fence

Electric Fence (efence) stops your program on the exact instruction that overruns (or underruns) a malloc() memory buffer.
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  • License:
  • GPL
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Bruce Perens
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://www.pf-lug.de/projekte/haya/efence.php

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Electric Fence Description

Electric Fence (efence) stops your program on the exact instruction that overruns (or underruns) a malloc() memory buffer. Electric Fence (efence) is an open-source library to detect buffer overruns and under-runs in C programs. Here you can find a further development of the original from Bruce Perens. This version includes* a port to MS Windows NT/2K/XP systems/compiler* extensions for finding memory-leaks* support for C++Electric Fence (efence) stops your program on the exact instruction that overruns (or underruns) a malloc() memory buffer. GDB will then display the source-code line that causes the bug.It works by using the virtual-memory hardware to create a red-zone at the border of each buffer - touch that, and your program stops. Catch all of those formerly impossible-to-catch overrun bugs that have been bothering you for years.


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