Re: freeware purify like memory checker ?
"Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov> writes:
> No. memtest86 tests viability of the RAM in your system. It's purpose
> is to try and detect hardware problems with your systems memory.
>
> What Johan wants is a package to do things like bounds checking of
> dynamically allocated arrays and uninitialized memory read/write
> checking, on code that he develops himself, or compiles himself
> anyway.
>
> I don't think any of the free ones come close to the functionality of
> purify, but it's been a couple of years since I checked into it so the
> situation may have changed. Johan, try one of these:
>
> % apt-cache search malloc|grep -i debug
> ccmalloc - A memory profiler/debugger
> debauch - A malloc debugger
> electric-fence - A malloc(3) debugger
> fda - C malloc debug library
> gccchecker - Memory access debugger for C language development
> njamd - Not Just Another Malloc Debugger
> dmalloc - Debuging memory allocation library
>
> from a system running Debian "testing".
>
> Also, if a commercial solution isn't totally out of the question you
> can look into Insure++ (http://www.parasoft.com). I've run it on my
> Debian "testing" system with moderate success.
Please do "Johan = Leif" in the above. I messed up the
attributions. Sorry about that.
Gary
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