[HACKERS] About memory checkers

Hi,

I've read the mails about Purify et all and concluded that there's
interest in memory-checking tools. So I wanted to give my 2 cents:

Check out 'checker', which works on Linux/intel and Solaris/SPARC
machines. Never really used it myself, but its documentation looks
promising. I couldn't find an ftp-site in the docs though.

Also, try to find 'electric fence'. Definitely works on Linux/intel, don't
know about other platforms. This I did use a couple of times, and then it
saved my life :). It gives the most usefull information when a debugger is
connected to the running process.

Maarten

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|     Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft,   NL    |
|        M.Boekhold@et.tudelft.nl   boekhold@gopher.library.tudelft.nl      |
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