Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:05:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: eivind@bitbox.follo.net (Eivind Eklund) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free (was: Memory leak in getservbyXXX?) Message-ID: <199709222105.OAA24114@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19970922220757.30317@bitbox.follo.net> from "Eivind Eklund" at Sep 22, 97 10:07:57 pm
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> As for the advanced diagonstics you want - sure, they look nice. > However, I've implemented this kind of diagnostics before, and as long > as I've exposed the invariant routine so it can be run at any point in > the program, I've never needed or had benefit from them. I've found > sprinkling the program with invariant checks at strategic points to be > much more effective at exposing problems. I'd rather it was a debugging option in the malloc library. I would prefer to not have to alter my code to get the checks. It's probably just a stylistic disagreement at this point. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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